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
Casey Nicholaw (#316) - April, 2011
Co-director and choreographer of Broadway's "The Book of Mormon", Casey Nicholaw, talks about his initial reaction on reading the irreverent new musical and how it was to work with Matt Parker and Tr…
00:58:11 |
Wed 20 Apr 2011
Nicholas Hytner (#315) - April, 2011
From London, National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner talks about his tenure leading that influential institution, including whether, as some have said, it was always his career goal; why h…
01:02:50 |
Wed 13 Apr 2011
Margaret Colin (#314) - April, 2011
"Arcadia"'s Lady Croom, Margaret Colin, discusses grappling with the intellectuals concepts in the play, the experience of spending several days having Tom Stoppard explain them, and what it's like t…
01:00:22 |
Wed 06 Apr 2011
Janet Suzman (#313) - March, 2011
Royal Shakespeare Company veteran Janet Suzman discusses her early years with the company, including her daunting audition for for Peter Hall, John Barton and Peter Brook; her repertory roles of Port…
00:57:46 |
Wed 30 Mar 2011
Michael Frayn (#312) - March, 2011
Acclaimed for his works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and theatre, Michael Frayn discusses how he determines when an idea is right for the stage when he has multiple forms to choose from. He a…
00:58:06 |
Wed 23 Mar 2011
Austin Pendleton (#311) - March, 2011
Austin Pendleton, director of the recent production of "The Three Sisters" at Classic Stage Company in New York, talks about the many Chekhov productions he's appeared in and directed over the years,…
01:04:29 |
Wed 16 Mar 2011
Barry Grove (#310) - March, 2011
Barry Grove, Executive Producer of the Manhattan Theatre Club, talks about his three-and-half decades of partnership with Lynne Meadow at the top of one of New York's largest not-for-profit theatres.…
00:56:54 |
Wed 09 Mar 2011
Elizabeth Marvel (#309) - March, 2011
Elizabeth Marvel talks about whether being "a bad kid" has influenced her more daring stage performances, and discusses the challenges of remaining alienated from her on stage family in Jon Robin Bai…
00:58:41 |
Wed 02 Mar 2011
Stephen Schwartz (#308) - February, 2011
Interviewed at the keyboard, composer Stephen Schwartz chronicles his career from college to "Wicked" and beyond. He explains how "Pippin" began as a college musical based on one paragraph in a histo…
01:03:17 |
Wed 23 Feb 2011
Everett Quinton (#307) - February, 2011
While playing both a farmer and his wife in Red Bull Theatre Company's "The Witch of Edmonton", Everett Quinton talks about appearing in Jacobean drama and getting to watch the rest of the company at…
01:01:43 |
Wed 16 Feb 2011
Fiona Shaw (#306) - February, 2011
During her visit to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Abbey Theatre's production of Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman", Fiona Shaw discusses taking on one point of this lesser-known play's unromanti…
01:03:12 |
Wed 09 Feb 2011
Stockard Channing (#305) - February, 2011
Stockard Channing discusses her work in Jon Robin Baitz's new play "Other Desert Cities", acknowledging the ambiguity of the character for the audience and explaining whether she has defined her char…
01:03:53 |
Wed 02 Feb 2011
Molly Smith (#304) - January, 2011
From Arena Stage's newly opened Mead Center for American Theater, artistic director Molly Smith discusses the development and construction of the new building, which encompasses the company's origina…
01:01:16 |
Wed 26 Jan 2011
George C. Wolfe (#303) - January, 2011
Playwright/director Geroge C. Wolfe discusses the seven year development of John Guare's "A Free Man of Color", from approaching Guare with the idea of merging Restoration comedies and life in New Or…
01:04:40 |
Wed 19 Jan 2011
Natasha Katz (#302) - January, 2011
"The Addams Family" and "Elf"'s lighting designer Natasha Katz talks about the path of her career, beginning with a high school community service requirement that saw her volunteering at a (now-defun…
00:54:01 |
Wed 12 Jan 2011
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (#301) - January, 2011
From his home base in Scarborough, England, playwright and director Sir Alan Ayckbourn makes a return visit to "Downstage Center" during the run of his 74th play, "Life of Riley". He discusses why he…
01:07:02 |
Wed 05 Jan 2011
John Kander (#300) - December, 2010
Composer John Kander talks about his decades-long collaboration with Fred Ebb, with particular focus on the four projects that were not fully completed before Ebb's death in 2004: "The Scottsboro Boy…
00:48:06 |
Wed 29 Dec 2010
David Esbjornson (#299) - December, 2010
Having recently steered "Driving Miss Daisy" to Broadway, director David Esbjornson discusses what it's like to direct a "brand," why he thinks older actors can play younger much more easily than the…
00:58:04 |
Wed 22 Dec 2010
Robert Brustein (#298) - December, 2010
Founding artistic director of both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Robert Brustein discusses how each of those organizations came into being, …
01:03:57 |
Wed 15 Dec 2010
Stephen Ouimette (#297) - December, 2010
Stephen Ouimette, who plays Bejart in the current Broadway revival of "La Bête", talks about what it takes to hold the stage, with little dialogue, throughout the show's fabled 30 minute opening mono…
01:00:25 |
Wed 08 Dec 2010
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