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
James Earl Jones (#197) - April, 2008
In a startlingly candid interview, actor James Earl Jones talks about what drew him to playing the role of Big Daddy in the current revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and his views on the play being …
01:00:35 |
Tue 15 Apr 2008
Ken Billington (#196) - April, 2008
Lighting designer Ken Billington, veteran of more than 80 Broadway productions ranging from the original "Sweeney Todd" to the current "Sunday in the Park with George", discusses the art of lighting …
00:55:37 |
Mon 07 Apr 2008
David Ives (#195) - March, 2008
Playwright David Ives talks about his many acts of "literary ventriloquism," channeling the voices of the authors of classic musicals for City Center's Encores series, including the current "Juno" an…
00:55:48 |
Wed 02 Apr 2008
Leigh Silverman (#194) - March, 2008
Director Leigh Silverman talks about the development of the Off-Broadway "Beebo Brinker Chronicles" and its transition from an Off-Off-Broadway space to a larger venue; how she juggles so many projec…
00:54:02 |
Tue 25 Mar 2008
Michael Cumpsty (#193) - March, 2008
"Sunday in the Park with George"'s Michael Cumpsty talks about the challenges of performing in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, how the script and score match the pointillism of George Seur…
00:56:57 |
Mon 17 Mar 2008
Kathleen Chalfant (#192) - March, 2008
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 lat…
00:57:35 |
Mon 10 Mar 2008
Alice Ripley (#191) - February, 2008
Alice Ripley, star of the new musical "Next To Normal" at New York's Second Stage Theatre, talks about the challenge of playing the emotionally disturbed mother of a "typical" American family and des…
00:54:17 |
Mon 03 Mar 2008
Nathan Lane (#190) - February, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane charts the course of his career, from touring New Jersey schools in the historical musical "Jerz" to starring on Broadway as the President of the United States in…
01:02:48 |
Mon 25 Feb 2008
Michael Rupert (#189) - February, 2008
"Legally Blonde"'s resident legal shark Michael Rupert talks about why his role as that musical's unsavory Professor Callahan is consistent with other roles he often plays and talks about being the s…
00:53:02 |
Wed 20 Feb 2008
Edward Albee (#188) - February, 2008
Multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee talks about the "inadvertent festival" of his works in the New York area, explaining why he declined to allow any synopsis of "Me, Myself an…
00:58:17 |
Mon 11 Feb 2008
Richard Easton (#187) - February, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton talks about his role in David Ives' play "New Jerusalem" and why he didn't spend much time trying to parse Spinoza's philosophy in preparation for the show (an…
01:00:01 |
Mon 04 Feb 2008
Tom Stoppard (#186) - January, 2008
Multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard talks about his latest work to appear on Broadway, "Rock 'n' Roll", including why he feels the play's love story, not its intellectual themes, …
01:01:11 |
Tue 29 Jan 2008
Frances Sternhagen (#185) - January, 2008
Two-time Tony-winner Frances Sternhagen surveys her six-decade career in the theatre, ranging from her decision to stop teaching "dramatics" to schoolchildren to her most recent Broadway appearance i…
00:58:47 |
Wed 23 Jan 2008
Norbert Leo Butz (#184) - January, 2008
Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz talks about his first reaction on being approached about appearing in a "new" Mark Twain play, "Is He Dead?", and about the construction of farce and how David Ive…
00:50:40 |
Mon 14 Jan 2008
Tony Walton (#183) - January, 2008
Designer turned director Tony Walton talks about his work directing the plays of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward for New York's Irish Repertory Theatre; considers how his work as a d…
01:03:02 |
Mon 07 Jan 2008
John Cullum (#182) - December, 2007
Actor John Cullum, currently appearing in the title role of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" at Lincoln Center Theater, but better known for his musical performances, talks about his experiences in classica…
01:02:29 |
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Alan Menken (#181) - December, 2007
Alan Menken, composer of both the film and Broadway musical versions of "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty And The Beast", talks about going "under the sea" with Ariel so many years after writing the s…
00:55:51 |
Mon 24 Dec 2007
Jack O'Brien (#180) - December, 2007
Director Jack O'Brien announces his new title as Artistic Director Emeritus at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and charts his quarter-century tenure as Artistic Director from his hiring in 1981; reveal…
01:01:11 |
Mon 17 Dec 2007
David Henry Hwang (#179) - December, 2007
Playwright David Henry Hwang talks about putting a version of himself -- and his father -- onstage in his new play "Yellowface" and why he doesn't want to reveal what in the play is fact and what is …
00:58:37 |
Mon 10 Dec 2007
André Bishop (#178) - November, 2007
Lincoln Center Theater artistic director André Bishop talks about the selection of "Cymbeline" and "South Pacific" for the current season and the thread that unifies the work on the company's two sta…
00:58:16 |
Mon 03 Dec 2007
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