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Downstage Center
Go in-depth with the leading artists and professionals working on stage today when you go "Downstage Center." Downstage Center, a collaboration of the American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio, is a weekly theatrical interview program that spotlights the creative talents on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world, with in-depth conversations that simply can"t be found anywhere else.
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Now in its fourth year, Downstage Center has been featured by the Associated Press and Slate.com as the place to go for theatrical talk.

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Kathleen Chalfant
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From Vita and Virginia and Dead Man's Cell Phone.
Original air date - March 7, 2008
Running Time - 57:35.

Bio of Kathleen Chalfant

Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant talks about doing double duty on New York stages right now: as the mother of the title character in Dead Man's Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons and as the latter of the two title characters in Vita And Virginia at the Zipper Factory Theater. Chalfant ranges over her extensive career, explaining why she took the role in Cell Phone without having even read the script and her heritage as an early staff member at Playwrights Horizons; what Harvey Fierstein taught her about "upstaging"; how The Jack Benny Show influenced an aspect of her performance in the landmark Angels In America; and how she coped with personal loss during the her acclaimed run in Margaret Edson's Wit.


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