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
Adrian Bryan-Brown (#236) - September, 2009
Veteran Broadway press agent Adrian Bryan-Brown ranges over his 30 year career as one of theatre's most successful "drumbeaters," from his first Broadway show, the 1979 "A Taste of Honey" through th…
00:59:57 |
Mon 28 Sep 2009
Sergio Trujillo (#235) - September, 2009
Choreographer Sergio Trujillo talks about the development of the new Broadway musical "Memphis" and how the dance styles he employs in it draw upon research he'd already done for several other musica…
00:57:11 |
Mon 21 Sep 2009
Victoria Bailey (#234) - September, 2009
Theatre Development Fund executive director Victoria Bailey talks about the newest icon of Broadway, the red steps of the redesigned TKTS Booth in Times Square, and talks about both how the lines at …
00:59:44 |
Mon 14 Sep 2009
Susan Hilferty (#233) - September, 2009
With her Tony-winning costume designs for the hit musical "Wicked" virtually circling the globe, costume designer Susan Hilferty describes the detailed process by which the show's creative team conce…
00:59:38 |
Tue 08 Sep 2009
Ken Davenport (#232) - August, 2009
Multi-tasking multi-hyphenate producer (and more) Ken Davenport talks about his varied projects, from stage to computer screen. He recalls his childhood years performing in community theatre and his…
00:59:02 |
Mon 31 Aug 2009
Douglas Aibel (#231) - August, 2009
Douglas Aibel, artistic director of New York's Vineyard Theatre, reflects upon the six year run and impending closing of the Broadway musical "Avenue Q", which made its Off-Broadway debut at the Vine…
00:58:44 |
Mon 24 Aug 2009
Allison Janney (#230) - August, 2009
"9 to 5" star Allison Janney talks about her transformation into a musical comedy performer, and why the dancing didn't worry her but the singing did. She also discusses her theatrical education at …
00:51:53 |
Mon 17 Aug 2009
Brian d'Arcy James (#229) - August, 2009
"Shrek"'s big green hero, Brian d'Arcy James, talks about the opportunities and limitations of creating the title character in the Broadway musical drawn from the first of the blockbuster animated fi…
01:12:10 |
Mon 10 Aug 2009
Gregory Jbara (#228) - August, 2009
Gregory Jbara traces his stage career from his first grade appearance as the title role in "Frosty the Snowman" all the way to his Tony Award-winning turn in the current Broadway musical "Billy Ellio…
00:57:54 |
Mon 03 Aug 2009
SDCF Masters of the Stage also available - November, 2008
If you enjoy Downstage Center you might be interested in our new program, SDCF Masters of the Stage.
00:01:05 |
Mon 05 Jan 2009
Jan Maxwell (#227) - November, 2008
Two-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell talks about whether she's been influenced by Carole Lombard and Anne Bancroft, her film predecessors as the leading ladies of "To Be or Not To Be", as well as the di…
00:55:25 |
Tue 11 Nov 2008
Tom Viertel (#226) - October, 2008
Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as "The Producers", "Hairspray", and the John Doyle-directed "C…
00:58:59 |
Tue 04 Nov 2008
James Naughton (#225) - October, 2008
Two-time Tony Award-winner James Naughton explains why he's at home in the Irish Repertory Theatre's "The Master Builder" and why it's his three Broadway musical appearances which are really the anom…
00:58:58 |
Mon 27 Oct 2008
Lanford Wilson (#224) - October, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson discusses the creation of his famed "Talley trilogy," including "Fifth of July", which stemmed in part from his equating an Eskimo folk tale with the …
01:00:07 |
Mon 20 Oct 2008
Gregg Edelman (#223) - October, 2008
Multiple Tony nominee Gregg Edelman describes about the creation of the new Broadway musical "A Tale of Two Cities", including a song that was cut and that he misses terribly, and explains to Dickens…
00:58:52 |
Mon 13 Oct 2008
Lynne Meadow (#222) - October, 2008
Just after returning from a year-long sabbatical, Manhattan Theatre Club artistic director Lynne Meadow talks about what she did and didn't do during her hiatus and explains how she shared planning f…
00:59:12 |
Mon 06 Oct 2008
B.D. Wong (#221) - September, 2008
Tony-winner B.D. Wong talks about his ongoing fascination with the 11-character, one-actor musical "Herringbone", from seeing the original production in 1981 through appearing in it for the third tim…
00:59:12 |
Tue 30 Sep 2008
Bernard Telsey (#220) - September, 2008
Prolific Broadway casting director (and recent reality TV judge) Bernard Telsey discusses his parallel careers as the head of Telsey + Company and the artistic director of Off-Broadway's MCC Theater.…
00:57:28 |
Mon 22 Sep 2008
Estelle Parsons (#219) - September, 2008
Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons talks about taking on the role of the pill-popping Violet Weston in Broadway's "August: Osage County", noting that she's played many drinkers in her career but this is he…
00:57:02 |
Mon 15 Sep 2008
Diane Paulus (#218) - September, 2008
Diane Paulus, director of the acclaimed 40th anniversary revival of the musical "Hair" in Central Park, talks about her long-standing love of the musical -- despite the fact that she'd never actually…
00:58:40 |
Mon 08 Sep 2008
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