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
Jack O'Brien (#180) - December, 2007
Director Jack O'Brien (Tony Award winner for Hairspray and The Coast of Utopia) announces his new title as Artistic Director Emeritus at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and charts his quarter-century t…
01:01:11 |
Mon 17 Dec 2007
David Henry Hwang (#179) - December, 2007
Playwright David Henry Hwang, who won a Tony for his play M. Butterfly, talks about putting a version of himself -- and his father -- onstage in his new play Yellowface and why he doesn't want to rev…
00:58:37 |
Mon 10 Dec 2007
André Bishop (#178) - November, 2007
During his time as artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, Andre; Bishop has received multiple Tony Awards for the organization, including for 1994’s Carousel, 2000’s Contact, the 2008 revival o…
00:58:16 |
Mon 03 Dec 2007
Shuler Hensley (#177) - November, 2007
Shuler Hensley (2002 Tony Award winner for Oklahoma!), the creature from Young Frankenstein, talks about the development of his character in the new Mel Brooks musical, as well as his seeming affinit…
00:50:33 |
Mon 26 Nov 2007
Terrence McNally (#176) - November, 2007
Terrence McNally (Tony winner for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class and Ragtime) talks about The Ritz then (1975) and now (the current Roundabout revival) and reveals …
00:57:53 |
Mon 19 Nov 2007
Carole Shelley (#168) September, 2007
Upon her return to the Broadway production, Wicked's original Madame Morrible, Carole Shelley (who tied for a Tony win in 1979 for her role in The Elephant Man), talks about whether she's hissed as a…
00:48:49 |
Mon 17 Sep 2007
Michele Pawk (#166) August, 2007
Days after joining the Hairspray cast as Velma von Tussle, 2002 Tony Award winner for Hollywood Arms Michele Pawk talks about the experience of being "put into" a long-running show and how one finds …
00:50:17 |
Mon 03 Sep 2007
Debra Monk (#163) August, 2007
Actress Debra Monk, winner of a Tony Award in 1993 for Redwood Curtain, talks about her six year journey through the development of the musical Curtains, and passionately reflects on the things she l…
00:50:53 |
Mon 13 Aug 2007
Dori Berinstein (#160) July, 2007
Producer Dori Berinstein (Tony winner for producing the 2001 revival of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) discusses the process behind creating the film ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, her unprece…
00:41:58 |
Mon 23 Jul 2007
Vanessa Redgrave (#158) July, 2007
Actress Vanessa Redgrave, a Tony winner for the 2003 revival of a Long Day’s Journey into Night, explains why, despite the character name in the program, she's not specifically playing "Joan Didion" …
00:57:16 |
Mon 09 Jul 2007
Catherine Zuber (#157) June, 2007
Five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber (for The Light in the Piazza, Awake and Sing!, The Coast of Utopia, South Pacific and The Royal Family) talks about the process of costum…
00:48:39 |
Mon 02 Jul 2007
Marian Seldes (#155) June, 2007
Revered stage veteran Marian Seldes (who won a Tony for 1967’s A Delicate Balance and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010) touches upon a few of the highlights of her stori…
00:56:16 |
Mon 18 Jun 2007
Mary Louise Wilson (#153) June, 2007
Tony winner for Grey Gardens, Mary Louise Wilson discusses her journey from workshop to Broadway with the musical Grey Gardens; recalls her Broadway debut in the troubled Judy Holliday vehicle Hot Sp…
00:46:10 |
Mon 04 Jun 2007
David Hyde Pierce (#152) May, 2007
David Hyde Pierce (who won a Tony for Curtains and an Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2010) talks about joining in the development of the long-aborning Curtains and how he faced the challenge of a full-f…
00:40:34 |
Mon 28 May 2007
Frank Langella (#151) May, 2007
Frank Langella (Tony Award winner for Seascape, Dracula and Frost/Nixon) talks about the challenge of making the character of Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon more than just a caricature, and whether it …
00:47:57 |
Thu 17 May 2007
Jerry Mitchell (#150) May, 2007
Tony Award-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell (for the original Cabaret and 2005 and 2010’s revivals of La Cage aux Folles) talks about taking on the dual roles of director and choreographer for th…
00:58:09 |
Mon 14 May 2007
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (#149) May, 2007
The team of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil (winners of Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Musical for Les Miserables) talk about why they broke from their usual practice of originating th…
00:51:24 |
Mon 07 May 2007
Judith Ivey (#146) April, 2007
Two-time Tony-winning actress Judith Ivey for her performances in Steaming and Hurlyburly, talks about her transition to directing; why she was drawn to direct Lee Thuna's Fugue at the Cherry Lane Th…
00:49:59 |
Mon 16 Apr 2007
Michael Blakemore (#42) February, 2005
Acclaimed director Michael Blakemore discusses his ongoing collaboration with playwright Michael Frayn during the Broadway run of "Democracy" and explores his famed virtuosity staging both plays and …
00:58:09 |
Fri 13 Apr 2007
John Mahoney (#145) April, 2007
John Mahoney (Tony winner for The House of Blue Leaves in 1986) talks about returning to Broadway after a 20-year hiatus in the Roundabout Theatre production of Prelude to a Kiss, including why he ha…
Mon 09 Apr 2007
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