Tony Award Winners on 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. We have collected the Tony Award winners who have appeared on Downstage Center.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 158
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2011
John Glover (#213) - August, 2008
Tony-winning actor John Glover (for Love! Valour! Compassion!) talks about the revival of Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Roundabout, and how he grappled with the distinctly…
00:53:38 |
Tue 05 Aug 2008
Todd Haimes (#211) - July, 2008
25 years after coming to New York's Roundabout Theatre Company, artistic director Todd Haimes talks about the company's growth from a financially troubled Off-Broadway group into one of the country's…
00:55:41 |
Mon 21 Jul 2008
Boyd Gaines (#208) - June, 2008
On the eve of his fourth Tony Award win (for the 2008 revival of Gypsy), actor Boyd Gaines talks about his busy year, including Journey's End, Pygmalion and both the Encores and Broadway runs of Gyps…
00:56:30 |
Mon 30 Jun 2008
Priscilla Lopez (#206) - June, 2008
Priscilla Lopez (Tony Award winner for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine in 1980) talks about what drew her to the new musical In The Heights and talks about her patience and faith that by th…
00:56:33 |
Mon 16 Jun 2008
Harriet Harris (#205) - June, 2008
Harriet Harris (winner of a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Thoroughly Modern Millie) talks about being "the adult" in a company of kids in the Broadway musical Cry-Ba…
00:57:11 |
Mon 09 Jun 2008
Laura Benanti (#204) - May, 2008
Broadway's newest Gypsy Rose Lee, Laura Benanti (winner of a Tony Award for her role in Gypsy), talks about playing the title role in Gypsy both last summer at City Center and again this year on Broa…
00:53:15 |
Mon 02 Jun 2008
Harold Prince (#200) - May, 2008
Legendary producer and director Harold Prince, recipient of numerous Tonys in both roles ranging from "Fiorello!" to "The Phantom of the Opera", surveys his career from his start in 1948 working for …
01:01:31 |
Mon 05 May 2008
David Zippel (#199) - April, 2008
Lyricist David Zippel, who won a 1990 Tony Award for his lyrics to City of Angels, discusses the development of Pamela's First Musical, the challenges posed by the untimely passing of two of his coll…
00:51:02 |
Mon 28 Apr 2008
James Earl Jones (#197) - April, 2008
In a startlingly candid interview, actor James Earl Jones (Tony winner a Best Actor in a Play for 1969’s The Great White Hope and 1987’s Fences) talks about what drew him to playing the role of Big D…
01:00:35 |
Tue 15 Apr 2008
Ken Billington (#196) - April, 2008
Lighting designer Ken Billington, a Tony winner for Chicago in 1997 and veteran of more than 80 Broadway productions ranging from the original Sweeney Todd to the recent Sunday in the Park with Georg…
00:55:37 |
Mon 07 Apr 2008
Alice Ripley (#191) - February, 2008
Alice Ripley, star of the musical Next To Normal--for which she won a Tony Award in 2009--talks about the challenge of playing the emotionally disturbed mother of a "typical" American family and desc…
00:54:17 |
Mon 03 Mar 2008
Nathan Lane (#190) - February, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane (for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Producers) charts the course of his career, from touring New Jersey schools in the historical musical …
01:02:48 |
Mon 25 Feb 2008
Michael Rupert (#189) - February, 2008
Legally Blonde's resident legal shark Michael Rupert (winner of a 1986 Tony Award for his Featured Role in Sweet Charity) talks about why his role as that musical's unsavory Professor Callahan is con…
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 and…
00:58:17 |
Mon 11 Feb 2008
Richard Easton (#187) - February, 2008
Actor Richard Easton, who won a Tony in 2001 for his role in The Invention of Love, talks about his role in David Ives' play New Jerusalem and why he didn't spend much time trying to parse Spinoza's …
01:00:01 |
Mon 04 Feb 2008
Tom Stoppard (#186) - January, 2008
Multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard (for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, The Real Thing and the Coast of Utopia) talks about his latest work to appear on Broadw…
01:01:11 |
Tue 29 Jan 2008
Frances Sternhagen (#185) - January, 2008
Two-time Tony-winner Frances Sternhagen (for The Good Doctor and The Heiress) surveys her six-decade career in the theatre, ranging from her decision to stop teaching "dramatics" to schoolchildren to…
00:58:47 |
Wed 23 Jan 2008
Norbert Leo Butz (#184) - January, 2008
Norbert Leo Butz, 2005 Tony winner for his role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, talks about his first reaction on being approached about appearing in a "new" Mark Twain play, Is He Dead?, and about the …
00:50:40 |
Mon 14 Jan 2008
Tony Walton (#183) - January, 2008
Designer turned director Tony Walton (Tony Award winner for designing, among others, Pippin, the 1986 House of Blue Leaves and 1992 of Guys and Dolls) talks about his work directing the plays of Geor…
01:03:02 |
Mon 07 Jan 2008
John Cullum (#182) - December, 2007
Actor John Cullum, Tony winner as Best Actor for his roles in Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century and currently appearing in the title role of Shakespeare's Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater, b…
01:02:29 |
Mon 31 Dec 2007
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