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
Katie Finneran (#276) - July, 2010
"Promises, Promises" scene stealer Katie Finneran talks about creating the character of Marge McDougall for only two scenes and why she had to be "the anti-Kristin," what it's like having so much fre…
01:00:26 |
Wed 07 Jul 2010
Ruthie Henshall (#275) - June, 2010
Trans-Atlantic star of "Chicago" Ruthie Henshall discusses her 14 year history with the show, from creating the role of Roxie in the original London company (opposite Ute Lemper) to subsequently play…
01:03:17 |
Wed 30 Jun 2010
Tony Shalhoub (#274) - June, 2010
"Lend Me a Tenor"'s Tony Shalhoub talks about the challenge of playing farce, including the shifts from rehearsal room to theatre to playing in front of a live audience, how you can suddenly "lose" a…
01:02:04 |
Wed 23 Jun 2010
Sarah Ruhl (#273) - June, 2010
Playwright Sarah Ruhl, whose "Passion Play" made its New York City debut with the Epic Theater Center, talks about the roots of that play during her graduate work at Brown University, what initially …
01:02:05 |
Wed 16 Jun 2010
Douglas Hodge (#272) - June, 2010
Douglas Hodge, who appears as Albin in the current Broadway revival of the musical "La Cage aux Folles", explains what appealed to him about the story and character, which he did not know, when he wa…
00:58:31 |
Wed 09 Jun 2010
Christine Jones (#271) - June, 2010
Scenic designer Christine Jones, a Tony nominee for "American Idiot", discusses the development of the project from album to Broadway musical, including when she came into the creative process and ho…
01:02:40 |
Wed 02 Jun 2010
Kenny Leon (#270) - May, 2010
"Fences" director Kenny Leon discusses his long association with August Wilson, both personally and professionally, dating back to Leon's 1987 NEA Directing Fellowship which first introduced him to W…
01:00:10 |
Wed 26 May 2010
Linda Lavin (#269) - May, 2010
"Collected Stories" star Linda Lavin discusses why she's playing the role of Ruth Steiner in Donald Margulies' play for a fourth time, likens the two-character play to a duet that changes with each n…
01:01:40 |
Wed 19 May 2010
B.H. Barry (#268) - May, 2010
Progenitor of fight direction in America and 2010 Tony Honor recipient B.H. Barry talks about his decades of developing and staging fights across the country, starting with "Hamlet" in 1978 at Arena …
01:00:45 |
Wed 12 May 2010
Betty Buckley (#267) - May, 2010
While appearing the new comedy "White's Lies", Betty Buckley talks about the career that has taken her from Texas to New York to London and back many times over. She discusses why she chose to play …
01:05:47 |
Wed 05 May 2010
Shirley Knight (#266) - April, 2010
During her month in the cast of the Off-Broadway comedy "Love, Loss and What I Wore", Shirley Knight discusses the appeal of the "stool and music stand" style of presentation while pointing out that …
00:58:11 |
Wed 28 Apr 2010
Janet McTeer (#265) - April, 2010
Janet McTeer talks about her experiences in "God of Carnage", having starred in the play's London premiere (where the characters were still French) and now playing it on Broadway (as an American) and…
01:01:45 |
Wed 21 Apr 2010
David Cromer (#264) - April, 2010
Director David Cromer discusses his most recent New York project, Andrew Bovell's "When The Rain Stops Falling" at Lincoln Center Theater, and how even he had to be reassured that the play's intertwi…
01:02:01 |
Wed 14 Apr 2010
Hallie Foote (#263) - April, 2010
Hallie Foote, perhaps the leading interpreter of the works of her father, the late Horton Foote, talks about her past year of work on "The Orphans' Home Cycle", the epic compilation of nine of her fa…
00:56:29 |
Wed 07 Apr 2010
Marsha Mason (#262) - March, 2010
During rehearsals for Keen Company's revival of "I Never Sang For My Father", Marsha Mason talks about the differences between playing in a Broadway house and a small Theatre Row venue. She also talk…
01:01:57 |
Wed 31 Mar 2010
Jordan Roth (#261) - March, 2010
Jordan Roth, President of New York's Jujamcyn Theatres, discusses his ascension to the top spot running a quintet of Broadway houses, which makes him one of the handful of people who can decide what …
00:59:37 |
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Jessica Hecht (#260) - March, 2010
Jessica Hecht, now on Broadway as Eddie Carbone's long-suffering but cleared-eyed wife Beatrice in the Broadway revival of "A View From The Bridge", talks about her role in the play's tragic love tri…
01:00:51 |
Wed 17 Mar 2010
Rondi Reed (#259) - March, 2010
The "resident character woman" of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Rondi Reed, talks about her current stint as Madame Morrible in the Broadway juggernaut "Wicked", a role she originated in th…
01:03:44 |
Wed 10 Mar 2010
Howard Sherman (#258) - March, 2010
Turnabout is fair play, as actor Richard Thomas is the guest host for a conversation with Howard Sherman, Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing. The longtime friends discuss the changes in …
01:03:45 |
Wed 03 Mar 2010
Gregory Mosher (#257) - February, 2010
Gregory Mosher, director of the current Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge", talks about how he initiated the production himself, personally approached Liev Schreiber and Sca…
01:04:56 |
Wed 24 Feb 2010
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