Podcasts about eureka theatre

Amy Glazer began her career in theater, directing numerous award winning plays in the San Francisco Bay Area including TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, San José Rep., Eureka Theatre, Traveling Jewish Theatre and serving as an Associate Artist at Magic Theatre and Associate Artistic Director of SF Playhouse, where she also directed numerous plays. She made her screen directing debut with Barry Gifford's Ball Lightning (2003), Drifting Elegant by Stephen Belber (2006) and went on to make Seducing Charlie Barker (2010) by Teresa Rebeck, which had its world premiere at SFIFF. She went on to co-write with Sylvia Brownrigg and direct Kepler's Dream (2016) and The Surrogate (aka Beautiful Dreamer) 2020, also an official selection scheduled to premiere at the 2020 SFIFF. Amy is currently in post-production on Meli, a feature film recently shot on location in Oahu Hawaii. Watch her current feature film THE SURROGATE ON AMAZON PRIME. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bravemaker/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bravemaker/support

Director and outgoing chair of the Cornish College of the Arts Theatre Department Richard ET White returns to discuss the reciprocal nature of directing and educating: about how creating art leads to the ability to teach the art, and how both creating and teaching leads to much unexpectedly wonderful learning. Featuring the value of simple acts of necessary communication vs. mad conceptual skills; the sting of painfully truthful recommendations; the advantages of them paying you vs. you paying them; an historic season at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco; how using theatre to teach English in Japan opens up whole new worlds; the pomposity of holding forth; and the incredible universality of Marowitzian deconstruction. (Length 14:29) The post Doing. Teaching. Learning. appeared first on Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Richard ET White is the former artistic director of the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, and the outgoing and longest-serving chair of the Cornish College of the Arts Theatre Department in that institution’s 103-year-old history. Richard was also an acting and directing teacher at the University of California Drama Department where many RSC members got their early training. RSC co-artistic director Austin Tichenor talks with his former professor about how theatre can be anything and everywhere; how comedy about serious issues from the San Francisco Mime Troupe became life-changing; the influence of Richard Schechner and the Performance Group; sneering at prosceniums; what people forget about Brecht; the value of immaturity; the immediacy of improv; the storytelling and performance art of stand-up; being both expansive and inclusive; the value of sharing your lived experience; and how you want theatre to have the visceral impact of a great rock concert. (Length 24:06) The post Everything Is Theatre appeared first on Reduced Shakespeare Company.

On this episode, Norman and I welcome Amber Rubarth, a singer, musician and co-creator of a new musical, The Paper Raincoat (www.thepaperraincoat.com). The show is sponsored by the Musical Cafe (www.musicalcafe.org) and there'll be two showings; tonight (June 1) and June 2nd, at 8pm. If you have time, check it out. Amber shares about her time growing up in California, moving to Nashville, the creative process in making a new musical. You can directly contact Amber via Facebook or Twitter/Snapchat/Instagram: @amberrubarth. SHOUTOUTS: The Paper Raincoat (Musical Cafe) June 1, June 2nd at 8pm Bay Area Children's Theatre - Osher Studio, Berkeley www.thepaperraincoat.com Sister Act (Theatre Rhino) CLOSES TONIGHT Playing at the Gateway Theatre (formerly the Eureka Theatre) http://therhino.org Bakersfield Mist (Off-Broadway West) TBA NOMINATED!! http://www.offbroadwaywest.org Richard Harder (Episode 26) is directing the show The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective (Central Works Theatre) May 4 – June 2 Alan Coyne (Episode 29) is in the show Gary Graves (Episode 24) is directing the show Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Town Hall Theatre) May 30 – June 22 https://www.townhalltheatre.com Melvygn Badiola (Episode 89), Deb Carriger (Episode 52) and yours truly (Reg Clay) is in the show

On this episode of the Yay, Norman and I have the great pleasure to talk to Dawn Monique Williams, the new associate artistic director at Aurora Theatre. Dawn is a veteran actor and director, the former associate director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has worked with a vast amounts of theater companies, including HERE Arts Center, Profile Theatre (in Portland OR), ACT, Chautauqua Theatre Company and the African American Shakespeare Company. She is currently directing Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at Town Hall Theatre. You can contact Dawn via Facebook or via Instagram (Dmw_directs) SHOUTOUTS Sister Act (Theatre Rhino) May 17 – June 1 Playing at the Gateway Theatre (formerly the Eureka Theatre) http://therhino.org The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective (Central Works Theatre) May 4 – June 2 Alan Coyne (Episode 29) is in the show Gary Graves (Episode 24) is directing the show Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Town Hall Theatre) May 30 – June 22 https://www.townhalltheatre.com Melvygn Badiola (Episode 89), Deb Carriger (Episode 52) and yours truly (Reg Clay) is in the show Bakersfield Mist (Off-Broadway West) May 3 – June 1 http://www.offbroadwaywest.org Richard Harder (Episode 26) is directing the show I'm a good friend of Carolyn Doyle.  Carolyn just had a bit of a life curve ball thrown at her. In addition to the usual challenges she faces (currently transitioning her son with low functioning autism to an adult group home and a new recreation program) and the typical challenges of raising a teenager daughter in an incredibly expensive city, she has to have some surgery. And Right Now, unfortunately.  Not life-threatening, but pretty major with a six-week to eight-week recovery period. And, because the world is the way it is, her job won't be held for her (insurance coverage ending on 5/31/19).  She will get some disability, but the partial payment will only be enough to cover basic household expenses. And like many of us, Carolyn lives paycheck to paycheck and doesn't have any savings in the bank. Non-profits, you know? Whatever you can give will go a long way. What are we if we don't help each other, as artists? https://www.gofundme.com/aftse-carolynsrecovery Reg Clay (@Reg_Clay) Norman Gee (@WhosYrHoosier)

On this episode of the Yay, I have the pleasure of interviewing Joyce Domanico-Huh, a very talented actress who is currently in Sister Act, playing at Theatre Rhino (http://therhino.org). I had the pleasure of seeing Joyce in Generation Theatre's interpretation of Twelfth Night, called Olivia's Kitchen (directed by David Valayre and starring Deborah Cortez); Joyce played Viola. You can directly contact Joyce via Facebook or Instagram (Popsikletoes) SHOUTOUTS: Sister Act (Theatre Rhino) May 17 – June 1 Playing at the Gateway Theatre (formerly the Eureka Theatre) http://therhino.org The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective (Central Works Theatre) May 4 – June 2 Alan Coyne (Episode 29) is in the show Gary Graves (Episode 24) is directing the show Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Town Hall Theatre) May 30 – June 22 https://www.townhalltheatre.com Melvygn Badiola (Episode 89), Deb Carriger (Episode 52) and yours truly (Reg Clay) is in the show Bakersfield Mist (Off-Broadway West) May 3 – June 1 http://www.offbroadwaywest.org Richard Harder (Episode 26) is directing the show I'm part of an exciting theatre company called Same Boat Theatre Collective – a company dedicated to creating theatre focusing on the environment and climate change. We're working on our first full length play, the Emeryville Horror, a full-length play about the effects of climate change and environmental degradation on underprivileged populations in the Bay Area, written by the brilliant Lisa Kang (Episode 76). The Indegogo campaign has finished by you can still contribute. Please contact Lisa Kang, Bridgette Dutta-Portman or myself if you would like to contribute to the bay area's first ever environmental theatre company. https://igg.me/at/sameboattheater/x/20716283

I was born and raised in Berkeley to a father who was a concert pianist and taught at UC and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. My mother was an opera singer of Icelandic heritage who sang all over the world with the San Francisco Opera. When she wasn’t singing opera, my mother was in musicals. Frequently she got my sister and I into the shows (like “The Sound of Music”) and we toured the whole country. We moved to Manhattan where I attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the New Lincoln School, the High School of Performing Arts (PA) and the New School for Social Research. I later returned to California to attend UCSB. Ultimately, after traveling the world and studying abroad, I wound up finishing my Master’s Degree in Theatre Direction at San Francisco State University. I founded Tour De Force Theater Company in San Francisco, and directed productions across the country. I taught theater at many universities including New College, St. Mary’s College, UCSB, and Suisun Valley College, among others – always as a lecturer, never getting tenure. (I like to joke that in the United States you have to wait for someone to die before you get a tenured position in the humanities). My last “job” in theater was as Co-Artistic Director of the Eureka Theatre, along with Lane Nishikawa and Benny Sato Ambush. I still direct occasionally and write scripts, but enjoy “real reality” more than fiction. I also like to make sure all my “drama” is on the stage and not in my work! I became a Realtor in 1998 and worked extensively in San Francisco, being a top producer for Century 21, and have been placed in the Grand Centurion Honor Society for my successes at that company. My company was bought by Alain Pinel, and I moved at that point to Red Oak Realty for a spell, and then came to Coldwell Banker where I was the Top Producer there for 6 years. Before I left I was ranked #8 for Coldwell Banker in Northern California, and was among the top 1,000 Realtors for NRT (Coldwell Banker’s Parent Company which also owns Century 21, ERA, BHG and others), which is quite an accomplishment. I was also named Realtor of the Year in 2015 by the Oakland Berkeley Association of Realtors, and my production in 2015-2017 has made me the #1 companywide agent at Red Oak Realty.

Ryan Weible, director of the Bay Area professional premiere of Stephen Sondheim's first show, “Saturday Night,” in conversation with KPFA chief theatre critic Richard Wolinsky. “Saturday Night: is a 42nd Street Moon production at the Gateway (formerly Eureka) Theatre in San Francisco, which runs March 28-April 15. In the interview, Ryan Weible discusses the show, its history, and his own history in theatre and as a director. 42nd Street Moon website. The post Interview: Ryan Weible, director, Sondheim's “Saturday Night” at 42nd Street Moon appeared first on KPFA.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. DJ Spooky joins us to talk about the SF Silent Film Festival's screening of Body and Soul, dir., Oscar Micheaux | USA, 1925 | 93 m., Friday, June 2, 7 p.m. at the Castro Theatre in SF 2. Gianna & Fely Tchaco,14th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival 6/10-6/11 (various locations) 3. Desiree Rogers (Deborah) & Jeunee Simon (Henrietta Lacks) join us to talk about Theatre First's production of HeLa at Live Oak Theatre through June 17.  4. Pricilla: Queen of the Desert, at Theatre Rhinoceros: May 27-July 1, joining us are: Charles Peoples III (; John Fisher (Director), AeJayMitchell (Choreographer). Shows are at Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson St., (at Battery St.) SF. Previews which begin 3/27-3/31 are pay what you wish.  

Mike Phirman, Erica Rhodes, James Acaster and Aisling Bea join Dave Holmes for an episode recorded LIVE at the Eureka Theatre for SF Sketchfest. They try their best pick up lines, eat truly awful Bay area delicacies, and accidentally order some dollhouses for everyone.   Mike Phirman wants to plug his song, You've Got What it Takes and recommends the Sleep with Me podcast. Erica Rhodes wants to plug The Night Light Comedy Show and recommends you listen to Caitlin Rose. James Acaster wants to plug Luna Dott Raids the Bee Pigeon and recommends you see Josh Gondelman whenever you have a chance. Aisling Bea is on Twitter, @WeeMissBea and has nothing to plug (other than her butt), and recommends you listen to her friend's band, Luna Dott Raids the Bee Pigeon. And finally, Dave Holmes in on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show The Friday Forty at LA's Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month.  You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter, we're @IWPod. Written by Sarah Morgan and Riley Silverman, recorded at the Eureka Theatre during SF Sketchfest, produced by Christian Dueñas and Jennifer Marmor.

For the Doughboys' foray into the Bay Area, actor and comedian Jon Gabrus (High and Mighty podcast, Guy Code) joins to discuss his favorite restaurant, Taco Bell, and to contemplate mortality. Mitch gets a hometown surprise. Recorded live at the Eureka Theatre at SF Sketchfest.

One of the stars of truTV's 'Those Who Can't', Adam Cayton-Holland stopped by Mornings On KFOG to talk about comedy in his hometown of Denver, married life, and Yaht Rock. Adam is in town for SF Sketchfest where you can catch him Friday 1/20 at the Eureka Theatre with his sketch group The Grawlix and on Sunday 1/22 at The Chapel for 'The Guest List- Live TV Taping'.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Cephus Johnson, a.k.a Uncle Bobby, is a social justice activist at the forefront of ending police brutality in America.  He joins us to talk about the Love Not Blood Campaign. 2. Aldo Billingslea, (Othello, Ensemble), Cal Shakes production of Othello through Oct. 9. 3. Brothers Size at Theatre Rhino through October 15 at the Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson Street, San Francisco.  We speak to Gabriel Christian (Oshoosi Size) and LaKeidrick Wimberly (Ogun Size). 4. We close with Kirsten Johnson, director, "Cameraperson," which opened theatrically this past weekend in Landmark Cinema in San Francisco, Berkeley and at the San Rafael Film Center.                                                           

Can it be? Yes! It’s me! Marc Hershon, your host and SPF30 sunscreen for Epi136 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. We’re back once again with a Succotash Clips episode, with an installment jam-packed with fresh clippage. A couple of things before we get into the meat of this show… NOT CLIPS First of all, I’m thinking of starting a campaign to change the generic name of “podcast” to “soundcast”. There are three trademarks in the US for soundcast but two of them are for audio equipment and the third is for a teleconferencing service. So if we all start using soundcast now to describe the podcast experience, there’s a good chance we can keep it in the public domain. (We’ve talked on the show before about how the podcast name was coined around the iPod from Apple, a device that is no longer even produced. And it will do away with the even more awkward “video podcast” which isn’t really even a thing – the video folks can just have videocasts if they want that for a name.) Secondly, it looks like I’ll be participating in an upcoming celebration of the 40th anniversary of Spaghetti Jam in San Francisco. Spaghetti Jam was an early improv group/pickup game where pretty much any of the San Francisco-based improvisers at the time could drop in, including folks like Robin Williams, Jim Crenna, Lorenzo Matawaran, Michael Bossier, John Elk, Debi Durst, and a whole bunch of others, including yours truly. Well, we’re getting what’s left of the Jam back together for one night. On Sunday, September 11th, we’ll be at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. For more info, Check out the Spaghetti Jam page on Facebook.  And finally, I’m also beginning to get prepared for this year’s 5th Annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival. Last episode I had a brief interview with Chris Mancini, co-host of the Comedy Film Nerds podcast and co-organizer of the LA Podfast. And in that talk we mentioned that I will be on-hand to moderate the Podcast And Journalism panel, which is going to be great fun. It’s going to be on at 2 PM on Sunday, and the panelists include Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer from the Criminal podcast and Jefferson Graham of USA Today. All right, that’s about me. Now let’s get to the good stuff. For Succotash Clips this time around, we’ve for snippets from Big Question, Comedy Film Nerds, Fake The Nation, Here We Are, Monday Morning Podcast, Psycho Pshow, WTF and the most recent entrant into the Podcast Graveyard to date — the Taco Tuesday Podcast, our buddies in Killeen, Texas, who decided to shut it down just this week with their 100th episode. Add to that a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with political comedian and social commentator Will Durst, whose been all over the Republicant and Democrap Conventions the past couple of weeks, a brand new spot from Henderson’s Pants and we will toss in a little closing ditty from friend-of-Succotash Abner Serd. CLIPS WTFI’m reviewing the episode out this week of WTF with Marc Maron, who has Jane Lynch in the garage as his guest. I think she’s hilarious and she also seems pretty level-headed and decent as a person. In this sample from the show, she’s talking about hoW she first met director and comic/actor, Christopher Guest, then later ended up in his Best In Show movie. Big QuestionOur next clip comes from the Big Question podcast and was submitted directly to us through our direct upload link. The note that accompanied it tells us a bit about the show and goes a little something like this: “Saw your requests for submissions on Twitter and figured that we’d throw our collective hats in the ring. The Big Question podcast has been in operation for slightly over a year and brings a weekly dose of no holds barred comedy and discussion. The four regular hosts are joined by a ever-changing collection of guests where we discuss a mass of topics from having sex with David Cameron for money (epi 2) to flatmates cleanliness problems (epi 33) to the inner workings of gay culture with our regularly occurring friend Rocchi."  Comedy Film NerdsThe other chief source for our clips here on Succotash Clips is our noble Associate Producer Tyson Saner. From his lair in an undisclosed location somewhere where in the northern reaches of California, Tyson is constantly slicing and dicing delectable chunks of podcast goodness. We have several he’s cooked up this week and the first is from the aforementioned Comedy Film Nerds podcast, hosted by Chris Mancini and Graham Elwood. It's from from epi317 back in April, and features guest Geoff Tate. Monday Morning PodcastAnother show I reviewed for Splitsider this week was the Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr. What a funny guy Burr is. And I admire his ability to just hold a mic and freeball his way through an hour without a co-host, a sidekick, or any other sort of production elements. I mean, he can’t read a spot worth a damn but, other than that, he’s on a level that includes Greg Proops and maybe Greg Fitzsimmons back when he occasionally didn’t have a guest. Get up to Splitsider.com if you want to read my review and here’s a snippet from the episode I reviewed, where Bill’s talking about Rudy Guilliani and cops. Psycho PshowTyson sliced us off a hunk of the Psycho Pshow – both of those words start with “P”, by the way, hence their tagline, “The World’s Worst Named Podcast – which is hosted by VJ, Chaidez and Toly. (No idea if I’m pronouncing those names right, by the way. Except maybe VJ because, really, how can you screw up initials?) I don't even try to describe the conversation in this 5-minute clip. I think they maybe were driving or walking somewhere while they were recording it. I can’t even tell. Fake The NationThere’s a new US comedy panel show that revolves around politics and current events. It’s called Fake The Nation and is hosted by Negin Farsad. Every episode she has a couple of comedically-inclined guests to help her comb through the nit and the grit of American and international politics. I mentioned Episode 3 this past week on Splitsider, when the talk was mostly about the political conventions and her guests were Dean Obeidallah and Nato Green. Here We AreComedians are just curiosity seekers like the rest of us. I mean, with podcast such as Professor Blastoff (may it rest in peace), The Infinite Monkey Cage, Talk Nerdy and many others, the hosts are often comics just looking for answers. Tyson clipped us off some of the Here We Are show, hosted by comedian Shane Mauss. And in his Epi77, Shane talks up music and psychology with guest Daniel Levitin, who is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer. Taco TuesdayThis past week saw some friends-of-Succotash toss in the virtual towel. Podcast Dan, Adam Wolf and Dave In The Cave over at the Taco Tuesday podcast hung up their mikes. They managed to hang in for their centennial, Epi100, but some siutations with their physical studio space as well as what they perceived as low listenership, finally decided them on closing up shop. Normally we wait until a show’s been in the ground for a year or more before we feature it in the Podcast Graveyard, and I have a feeling these guys will be back in one configuration or another. But for now, we feature — literally — the last few minutes of the podcast that was Taco Tuesday. Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs (The May Bee Song)So I got a note from our favorite acapella song stylist, Abner Serd, host of the Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs podcast. Abner says, “Hi Marc - A few months ago, I tagged you in a song called 'Reflections on a Snowflake,' while acknowledging that it didn't pack as much humor as some of the others. Same goes for this one - it's all yours if you decide to use it, but I understand if it doesn't quite fit. Here is my latest little ditty, called The May Bee Song.” In closing, I did something this week that I don't think I've done since Succotash kicked off over 5 years ago, and that is take a long, hard look at our download numbers. Guess what? They suck! I mean, they're not horrible but they're not the kind of numbers that advertisers drool over. So if I can infringe on your delicate sensibilities to PLEASE get up to iTunes in good haste and give Succotash a 5-star rating and a few sentences of a glowing reviews, I will promise to redouble my efforts to churn out this show on a regular, weekly basis. But it's going to take a team to pull this off, otherwise we might just have to go the way of our friends at Taco Tuesday, bust a gum machine, and get the hell out of here... — Marc Hershon

John Hodgman joins Jordan and Jesse live on stage at the Eureka Theatre as part of the 2016 SF Sketchfest.

Kumail Nanjiani, Chris Garcia, Caitlin Gill and Glenn Wool tell stories at our spectacular third visit to San Francisco Sketchfest at the Eureka Theatre, Feb 2013.

The cliffhanger is resolved! LIVE from the San Francisco Improv Festival on September 18th, 2013 at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco! When we left our hero we had just found out that the evil planet destroyer Asteron was his … Continue reading →

Illusionoid was chosen to perform at the prestigious San Francisco Improv Festival that took place just last week! And here’s the show! Recorded LIVE on September 18th, 2013 at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco! When the evil Asteron threatens … Continue reading →

We open with a rebroadcast of an interview with Joanna Haigood re: Sailing Away Sept. 13-16, 2012 on Market Street in San Francisco. Out & Equal at Work edited by Selisse Berry contributor:Christie Hardwick has more than thirty years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations and grassroots organizing efforts. She is also past president of the National Board of Directors for GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network. She provides strategic thinking and personal guidance services to clients across the United States. Christie has facilitated the Out & Equal Executive Forum since 2008. Shirlene Holmes, playwright's work "A Lady and A Woman" is having its West coast debut next week, March 7-24 at the Eureka Theatre in SF. Dr. Holmes is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University presently. Her dramas are rooted in the African American experience and give voice to the marginalized in society and celebrate the profundity of the common person. www.TheRhino.org  Dave Christensen, dir. The Harvey Milk Photo Center, a San Francisco Recreation and Park facility, and Jennifer McFarland, dir., The Pirkle Jones Foundation join us to speak about artists Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch's Black Power/Flower Power an exhibit currently up through March 23 at the Havey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco, 50 Scott Street at Duboce in San Francisco. Visit http://www.pirklejones.com/ and harveymilkphotocenter.org Music: Abraham Burton's Amina and Judith Sephuma's LeTshephile Mang.  

Having recently steered "Driving Miss Daisy" to Broadway, director David Esbjornson discusses what it's like to direct a "brand," why he thinks older actors can play younger much more easily than the other way around, and what it was like to work with powerhouse actors like Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones. He also talks about growing up as the child of a high school drama teacher in Minnesota and how The Guthrie Theatre developed theatrical influence and inspiration among audiences in a five-state area during his formative years; reflects on working with his grad schoolmate Tony Kushner on the very first production of "Angels in America" at Eureka Theatre; explains how he came to collaborate with Arthur Miller on "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan" and "Resurrection Blues", and with Edward Albee on "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?"; considers the different experiences of being artistic director at Classic Stage Company in New York and Seattle Repertory Theatre, and how they compare to being a freelance director; and ponders what challenges he'd most like to tackle in the coming years. Original air date - December 22, 2010.

Having recently steered "Driving Miss Daisy" to Broadway, director David Esbjornson discusses what it's like to direct a "brand," why he thinks older actors can play younger much more easily than the other way around, and what it was like to work with powerhouse actors like Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones. He also talks about growing up as the child of a high school drama teacher in Minnesota and how The Guthrie Theatre developed theatrical influence and inspiration among audiences in a five-state area during his formative years; reflects on working with his grad schoolmate Tony Kushner on the very first production of "Angels in America" at Eureka Theatre; explains how he came to collaborate with Arthur Miller on "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan" and "Resurrection Blues", and with Edward Albee on "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?"; considers the different experiences of being artistic director at Classic Stage Company in New York and Seattle Repertory Theatre, and how they compare to being a freelance director; and ponders what challenges he'd most like to tackle in the coming years. Original air date - December 22, 2010.

00:00 Red Tape (10.21.09 - Knitting Factory, Spokane, Washington) 11:00 Bridgeless > 29:12 Roulette > 32:29 Visions of Parin > 42:29 Roulette (10.25.09 - Eureka Theatre, Eureka, California) 44:23 Push the Pig > 52:51 I'm On Fire* > 58:28 Push the Pig (10.08.09 - House of Blues, Cleveland, Ohio) 59:31 Resolution > 66:13 Much Obliged^ > 73:03 Hollywood Nights** (10.29.09 - House of Blues, West Hollywood, California) Total Broadcast Length 78:48 Notes: * first time played (Bruce Springtseen); instrumental ^ with Q*Bert tease ** first time played (Bob Seger)