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
Bernadette Peters (#1) April, 2004
On Downstage Center's debut program from April 2004, Bernadette Peters surveys her career from childhood performer to her role as the ultimate stage mother in Sam Mendes' revival of "Gypsy". Original…
00:46:23 |
Sun 07 May 2006
Richard Maltby, Jr. (#96) April, 2006
Lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr. talks about how he grew to be fond of Johnny Cash (who he never met) as he developed the musical "Ring of Fire", recalls creating "Ain't Misbehavin'" in the …
00:43:39 |
Wed 12 Apr 2006
John Patrick Shanley (#97) April, 2006
With his newest play Defiance premiering at Manhattan Theatre Club and the award-winning Doubt entering its second year on Broadway, John Patrick Shanley talks about the evolution of his trilogy incl…
00:37:32 |
Wed 12 Apr 2006
Cynthia Nixon (#95) March, 2006
Nearing the end of her run in David Lindsay Abaire's "Rabbit Hole", Cynthia Nixon discusses the experience of listening to audiences at every performance of this emotional play, how she chose this pa…
00:38:41 |
Fri 07 Apr 2006
Jonathan Pryce (#93) March, 2006
Two-time Tony winner Jonathan Pryce describes his journey from a small political theatre company in England to being the star of such musicals as "My Fair Lady" in London, "Miss Saigon" in London and…
00:42:56 |
Fri 24 Mar 2006
LaChanze (#90) February, 2006
"The Color Purple"'s LaChanze talks about The Oprah Effect on that show, as well as her personal identification with the challenges faced by her character Celie; reflects on her fruitful artistic par…
00:38:10 |
Fri 03 Mar 2006
Patti LuPone (#88) February, 2006
While Mrs. Lovett playing the tuba may seem strange to some, "Sweeney Todd"'s Patti LuPone explains that she's no stranger to the tuba, as she recalls her years in the high school band, as well her f…
00:48:07 |
Fri 17 Feb 2006
Sarah Jones (#86) January, 2006
Sarah Jones talks about the shift from slam poet to Broadway star, performing at United Nations, the melting pot of Queens, NY, and what its like to have Meryl Streep as your number one fan. And she …
00:36:02 |
Tue 07 Feb 2006
Michael Cerveris (#85) January, 2006
Straddling the worlds of musical comedy and rock and roll, "Sweeney Todd"'s Michael Cerveris talks about how his extensive work with Stephen Sondheim makes it hard to sing more conventional musical t…
00:48:21 |
Fri 20 Jan 2006
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (#46) March, 2005
With the cast album of "Dessa Rose" now in stores, here's the "Downstage Center" March 2005 interview with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty in which they survey their career from jingle writing to "R…
01:01:12 |
Tue 17 Jan 2006
Jerry Herman (#28) November, 2004
Legendary composer Jerry Herman plays and sings snippets of some of his most famous compositions as he recalls the creation of such seminal musicals as "Hello Dolly", "Mame" and "La Cage aux Folles" …
00:55:57 |
Tue 17 Jan 2006
John Cullum and Rosemary Harris (#83) December, 2005
Stage veterans Rosemary Harris and John Cullum talk about meeting for the very first time to play husband and wife in Ariel Dorfman's "The Other Side", discuss their feelings about seeing their child…
00:41:15 |
Thu 12 Jan 2006
Doug Hughes (#84) January, 2006
One of the busiest directors in New York, Tony-winner Doug Hughes, talks about revisiting "Doubt" with a new cast; how he handles the heightened expectations for "Defiance", his next collaboration wi…
00:38:47 |
Thu 12 Jan 2006
Audra McDonald (#82) December, 2005
Audra McDonald recounts her start in theatre as an alternative to therapy for childhood hyperactivity, her teenage years at small theatres in northern California (including her performance as Eva in …
00:36:09 |
Thu 29 Dec 2005
Oskar Eustis (#81) December, 2005
Early in his first season at the helm, Oskar Eustis, the new artistic director of The Public Theater, talks about his plans for that seminal theatrical institution, both on stage and off, lets slip p…
00:29:28 |
Tue 27 Dec 2005
Matthew Broderick (#32) December, 2004
During the Off-Broadway run of "The Foreigner", Matthew Broderick addresses whether he's really as shy as news reports would portray him, talks about his early years growing up in New York and on bot…
00:39:06 |
Thu 15 Dec 2005
Gary Beach (#41) February, 2005
Gary Beach takes off his "La Cage aux Folles" feathers to discuss playing Zaza in the musical's first Broadway revival, his Tony-winning success in "The Producers" and even his lesser known history i…
00:53:07 |
Thu 15 Dec 2005
Susan Stroman (#23) October, 2004
Director-choreographer Susan Stroman charts her career from her early days as a chorus member in regional theatre to her triumph with "The Producers" to her work with Nathan Lane bringing Stephen Son…
00:49:20 |
Thu 15 Dec 2005
Judy Kaye (#78) November, 2005
Judy Kaye talks about recreating the spirit and decidedly unique voice of 1940s-era vocal phenomenon Florence Foster Jenkins in "Souvenir", and talks about her star-making experience taking over the …
00:39:05 |
Thu 08 Dec 2005
Lea Salonga (#75) November, 2005
On the eve of her solo concert at Carnegie Hall, Lea Salonga chronicles her journey from the Philippines to the West End to Broadway with "Miss Saigon", the experience of being in a "new" Rodgers & H…
00:43:24 |
Wed 09 Nov 2005
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