ATW - Downstage Center
The American Theatre Wing presents Downstage Center a weekly theatrical interview show, featuring the top artists working in theatre, both on and Off-Broadway and around the country.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 357
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2013
David Zayas and Stephen Adly Guirgis (#336) - April, 2012
From NYC police officer to Broadway, actor David Zayas has had an interesting journey from the street to the stage. In the latest Downstage Center, the accomplished actor joins his fellow LAByrinth …
00:27:04 |
Wed 11 Apr 2012
Bobby Lopez (#335) - March, 2012
Where are Broadway's biggest talents? Downstage Center. The latest sits down with Tony Award winner ("Avenue Q", "The Book of Mormon") Bobby Lopez. The composer and lyricist talks to Ted Chapin (Amer…
00:31:03 |
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Bill Berloni (#334) - March, 2012
Broadway’s premier animal trainer Bill Berloni got his foot in the door in 1976 as a teenager when he rescued and trained the original Sandy for the Goodspeed Opera House original production of "Anni…
00:29:48 |
Wed 14 Mar 2012
Montego Glover and Adam Pascal (#333) - February, 2012
Where are Broadway’s hottest stars? Downstage Center. The latest episode heads down south as Memphis’ Montego Glover plays the role as interviewer to her co-star Adam Pascal. The versatile duo expoun…
00:30:22 |
Wed 29 Feb 2012
Nina Arianda (#332) - February, 2012
Nina Arianda’s star has never shone brighter. Recreating the off-Broadway role that her made a name to watch, the actress returns to Broadway in "Venus in Fur" in what the New York Times called "the …
00:29:05 |
Wed 15 Feb 2012
Andrew Rannells (#331) - February, 2012
Go backstage with one of Broadway's hottest actors from Broadway's biggest show. NY1's Frank DiLella interviews "The Book of Mormon" star Andrew Rannells in the latest "Downstage Center". From "Hair…
00:30:33 |
Wed 01 Feb 2012
Marlo Thomas and Lisa Emery (#330) - January, 2012
Marlo Thomas and Lisa Emery share the stage in Broadway's "Relatively Speaking" (an evening of one-acts written by Elaine May, Woody Allen, and Ethan Coen). In the Wing's latest "Downstage Center" th…
00:31:03 |
Wed 18 Jan 2012
Elaine Paige and Ron Raines (#329) - January, 2012
What happens when "Follies" star Elaine Paige sits down to interview her co-star Ron Raines? Listen now to the lively discussion about everything "Follies" and Sondheim: his lyrics, Sondheim as teach…
00:29:56 |
Wed 04 Jan 2012
Eugene Lee (#328) - July, 2011
Eugene Lee, resident designer for Rhode Island's Trinity Rep since 1967, set designer for "Saturday Night Live (SNL)" since its inception, and three-time TONY Award winner, talks about the realistic…
00:53:59 |
Wed 27 Jul 2011
Lois Smith (#327) - July, 2011
American actress Lois Smith, whose career in theatre, film, and television spans five decades, talks about her experience of playing the originally male role, Alcandre, in the Signature Theatre prod…
00:54:37 |
Wed 13 Jul 2011
Angela Lansbury (#326) - June, 2011
Returning to Downstage Center five years after a 2006 conversation, the legendary Angela Lansbury talks about her most recent Broadway roles, in Terrence McNally's "Deuce", Noel Coward's "Blithe Spir…
00:58:15 |
Wed 29 Jun 2011
John Guare (#325) - June, 2011
John Guare talks about his two Broadway plays of the past season: considering how the world has caught up with and changed audience responses to "The House of Blue Leaves" and which portion of the pl…
01:03:55 |
Wed 22 Jun 2011
Jenny Gersten (#324) - June, 2011
Just as she departed for Massachusetts and her first season as the Williamstown Theatre Festival's first female artistic director Jenny Gersten discussed her plans for the company under her leadershi…
00:54:09 |
Wed 15 Jun 2011
Tony Sheldon (#323) - June, 2011
"Priscilla Queen of the Desert"'s Tony Sheldon talks about his six year journey with the show, from his dislike of the original film on which it's based to his transcontinental success as Bernadette …
00:58:21 |
Wed 08 Jun 2011
John Weidman (#322) - June, 2011
Bookwriter John Weidman talks about creating a new book in the 1980s with Timothy Crouse for the 1930s musical "Anything Goes", now playing in revival at Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, and h…
00:55:07 |
Wed 01 Jun 2011
Marc Kudisch (#321) - May, 2011
Marc Kudisch, currently appearing in "A Minister's Wife" at Lincoln Center Theater, talks about performing in a musical where the transitions between speaking and singing are instant and fluid, how t…
01:00:20 |
Wed 25 May 2011
Joe Mantello (#320) - May, 2011
Joe Mantello talks about returning to the Broadway stage as an actor after a 17-year hiatus to play the role of Ned Weeks in Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" -- and what it's like to play a role tha…
01:00:21 |
Wed 18 May 2011
Jason Robert Brown (#319) - May, 2011
Jason Robert Brown, who prefers the title "songwriter" over "composer," talks about why he spends so much time performing his own material and engaging directly with his fans. He discusses writing a…
01:02:34 |
Wed 11 May 2011
David Lindsay-Abaire (#318) - May, 2011
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire talks about returning to his South Boston roots with the play "Good People", how the characters are amalgams of the people he grew up with in that private neighborhood…
00:56:13 |
Wed 04 May 2011
Laurie Metcalf (#317) - April, 2011
Laurie Metcalf talks about her role in Sharr White's play "The Other Place" at MCC Theater, and the challenge of playing someone whose mental faculties are diminishing in a non-linear play, requiring…
00:55:35 |
Wed 27 Apr 2011
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