Podcast appearances and mentions of John Guare

Daniel SeidmanComposer & Co-LyricistDr. Daniel Seidman is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in New York City. Dan started playing in a band at the age of 12 at the Cafe Wha in Greenwich Village. At the age of 15, he toured the U.S. and Canada playing Hammond organ for Chubby Checker. He completed a year as a composition major at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1972-1973, and a B.A. in History from SUNY Binghamton. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988, and subsequently joined the faculty at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) where he taught, practiced psychology, and did research for 30 years. He retired from Columbia in June of 2018. Fifth Avenue the musical originally grew out of Dan's combined interest in jazz and history. Discussions with a history professor Albert Fried about the immigrant experiences of the Irish, Jews, Italians and in more contemporary times, Blacks, Hispanics and the Chinese provided insight into the “dark side” of the American dream and its “underworld culture”. This is the story Fried tells in his book “The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America” (Columbia University Press). After college, Dan began composing the music for "Fifth Avenue" while employed by the Shubert Organization in New York City. He met Susan Crawford, who wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics for Fifth Avenue, in 1979. They were married in 1984 and are now the proud parents of two grown sons. Susan CrawfordBook Writer and Co-LyricistMy theater life began at 13 in my hometown's Shakespeare Festival. It evolved into much acting from then into my 30's. It soon overlapped with an interest in playwriting, and I finished my first play at 24. Eventually writing overcame acting for me. For that I studied with Arthur Kopit and John Guare; lyric writing at the ASCAP workshop, and with Sheila Davis, and Dorothy Fields. Around that time I co-developed the continuity for Ned Sherrin for “Only In America” songs by Leiber and Stoller. It ran at the Roundhouse in London, and was a distant antecedent to what became “Smoky Joe's Cafe.” “Dollars to Doughnuts, a Comedy for the 99%” was my master's thesis in the CCNY Graduate Writing Program where I studied with Arthur Kopit. It was a finalist in the O'Neill Playwriting Conference the year it was finished (under the title "Lotto"). For the summer 2022 season, it was selected by Theatre for the New City's “Dream Up” Festival where it was workshopped and is now being submitted for production. My one-act "Place Settings" was selected for the Chain Theatre's 2023 Winter One-Act Festival, and is also available for production.R.K. GreeneProducer and Executive Director of The StoryLine Project, LLC, a theatrical production company developing new shows. Shows include: * "Beau The Musical" by Lyons & Pakchar now an award-winning feature-length motion picture; * "Fifth Avenue" in development by Susan Crawford & Daniel Seidman* "Harmony" by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman on Broadway; * "Farinelli and the King" with Mark Rylance on Broadway;* "Terms of Endearment" with Molly Ringwald Off-Broadway and licensing thru Playscripts;* "A Time to Kill" with Patrick Page, Tonya Pinkins, Tom Skerritt, Fred Thompson and John Douglas Thompson on Broadway; * "Peter and the Starcatcher" winner of five Tony awards and now an Australian Tour in 2024-25; * "Cougar The Musical" Off-Broadway and licensing thru Concord Theatricals;* "Love Child" with Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton Off-Broadway and licensing thru Playscripts;* "Room Service" Off-Broadway. See https://www.storylineproject.com/Fifth AvenueWhat happens when your American Dream keeps getting caught up in other peoples' schemes?  Max and Willy borrow money to go legit and open a nightclub during prohibition offering ‘Fifth Avenue' class in NYC's Hell's Kitchen.  Meanwhile the younger generation chase their own versions of the ‘American Dream.'

Michi Barall is a New York City-based actor, playwright and academic. As an actor, Michi has appeared in new plays by Julia Cho, Philip Kan Gotanda, A.R. Gurney, John Guare, Naomi Iizuka, Han Ong, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, Charles Mee, Sarah Schulman, Anna Deavere Smith, Diana Son, Lloyd Suh, Regina Taylor, Doug Wright and Chay…

Michi Barall is a New York City-based actor, playwright and academic. As an actor, Michi has appeared in new plays by Julia Cho, Philip Kan Gotanda, A.R. Gurney, John Guare, Naomi Iizuka, Han Ong, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, Charles Mee, Sarah Schulman, Anna Deavere Smith, Diana Son, Lloyd Suh, Regina Taylor, Doug Wright and Chay…

You may know William Atherton from Day Of The Locust, The Hindenburg, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, and Real Genius or you may better remember him for vigorously questioning the environmental safety of ghost busting or for receiving a blow to the face which rings in a very Merry Christmas in Die Hard.  Bill began his career on the stage, performing in Broadway plays by David Rabe, John Guare and Arthur Miller. The Ghostbuster and Die Hard franchises brought him to Hollywood and he joins us to discuss his fascinating history, his heroes and influences and his range of experiences with such performers as Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, and Diane Keaton. Did you know that Bill sings What'll I Do in Nelson Riddle's Great Gatsby score!? He tells us all about it and talks about recognizing the greatness of Stephen Spielberg even as a baby director when Bill stared in Sugarland Express. He remembers how Anne Bancroft would not stop talking about Mel Brooks on the set of The Hindenburg, he shares what he learned from the casts of Lost and Desperate Housewives and he addresses the internet's most time-honored question, is Die Hard a Christmas movie?Plus, Fritz and Weezy are recommending Will & Harper and Nobody Wants This on Netflix.Path Points of Interest:William AthertonWilliam Atherton on WikiWilliam Atherton on IMDBGift of DemocracyMedia Path PodcastNobody Wants This on NetflixWill and Harper - Netflix

An Atlantic City oyster-schucker and an aging gangster are on the run after her ex-husband rips off a Philly drug-running operation. Filmed as the Jersey Shore opened up to gambling, it captures a city under the wrecking ball of an uncertain future. Starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, and Robert Joy. Written by John Guare. Directed by Louis Malle.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1223, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions 1: There's a lot of smiting and destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either. the Philistines. 2: After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done". Noah. 3: These insects "did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left". locusts. 4: The Lord says, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness" for this length of time, "until your carcases be wasted". 40 years. 5: In 2 Kings this king of Babylon "cut in pieces all the vessels of gold... in the Temple of the Lord". Nebuchadnezzar. Round 2. Category: River Damage 1: A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is mainly caused by an excess of this element, much of it carried by the Mississippi. nitrogen. 2: Sediment from erosion hurts rivers because this can't penetrate the water, hindering the ecosystem. sunlight. 3: Surface runoff from farms or your lawn can add these chemicals, like chlordane, to your local river. pesticides. 4: This country's Sarno river is the most polluted in Europe. Italy. 5: You may not love the time of this disease that's been called the "archetype of waterborne illnesses". cholera. Round 3. Category: The Royal They 1: 1894 to 1918: blank II and blank. Nicholas and Alexandra. 2: 1660 to 1683: this radiant royal and Marie-Therese. Louis XIV. 3: 1956 to 1982:he and Grace. Rainier. 4: 1924 to 1989: he and Nagako. Hirohito. 5: 1677 to 1694:they. William and Mary. Round 4. Category: Let'S Put On A Play 1: Your cousin might know a friend of the roommate of a nephew of the lawyer of John Guare, who wrote this 1990 play. Six Degrees of Separation. 2: A book is the example of the "hand" type of these; a bookcase is an example of the "set" type. Props. 3: "Edible" name for a common type of water-soluble stage makeup. Pancake. 4: From Greek for "entrance to a tent", it's the arch that separates the stage from the auditorium. the proscenium. 5: Founded in 1913, this stage actors' union represents about 40,000 members in the U.S.. Equity. Round 5. Category: 1951 1: In 1951 it celebrated its 175th anniversary and was sealed in a helium-filled case. the Declaration of Independence. 2: On February 26 a constitutional amendment became law, limiting the holder of this office to 2 terms. President of the United States. 3: In May, this utility co. became the 1st corporation in the world to have over 1,000,000 stockholders. ATandT. 4: On Oct. 24,1951, Truman declared our state of war with this country had finally ended. Germany. 5: 90 cadets at this academy were ousted in a cheating scandal. West Point. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Meg investigates the true story behind John Guare's theatrical masterpiece Six Degrees of Separation. Jessica untangles the cheesy threads of the legendary Ray's Pizza litigation.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

The extraordinary Craig Carnelia has had four shows produced on Broadway. Working with composer Marvin Hamlisch, he wrote the lyrics for “Sweet Smell of Success,” with book by John Guare, and “Imaginary Friends” with Nora Ephron.   As both composer and lyricist, Craig wrote the score for “Is There Life After High School” and contributed songs to “Working.”  Off-Broadway, he wrote the score for “Three Postcards at Playwrights Horizons,” with book by Craig Lucas, and contributed to the review “Diamonds,” directed by Hal Prince. Regionally, he wrote the score for “Poster Boy” at Williamstown Theatre Festival.  Awards include two Tony Award nominations, two Drama Desk nominations, two "Best Plays" citations, the Kleban Award, and the Johnny Mercer Award.   As a teacher of "acting through song," Craig taught renowned ongoing classes in New York for the Broadway community for close to three decades.  His book, The Reason to Sing: A Guide to Acting While Singing, is used at numerous universities and conservatories nationwide, including Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. ON THE KNOWS with Randall Kenneth Jones is a podcast featuring host Randall Kenneth Jones (bestselling author, speaker & creative communications consultant) and Susan C. Bennett (the original voice of Siri). ON THE KNOWS is produced and edited by Kevin Randall Jones. ON THE KNOWS Online:    Join us in the Podcast Lounge on Facebook. X (Randy): https://twitter.com/randallkjones  Instagram (Randy): https://www.instagram.com/randallkennethjones/ Facebook (Randy): https://www.facebook.com/mindzoo/ Web:  RandallKennethJones.com X (Susan): https://twitter.com/SiriouslySusan Instagram (Susan): https://www.instagram.com/siriouslysusan/ Facebook (Susan): https://www.facebook.com/siriouslysusan/ Web: SusanCBennett.com LinkedIn (Kevin): https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-randall-jones/  Web: KevinRandallJones.com   www.OnTheKnows.com

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning actor, writer, director and producer; Phil Proctor! Phil Proctor is an internationally known actor, singer, writer, composer, director and producer. His musical and linguistic gifts have taken him from Broadway (The Sound of Music, A Time For Singing) to cities across the U.S., Canada, France, and to the former USSR. He won the Theatre World Award for the Off-Broadway musical "The Amorous Flea" and was cited as best actor by the LA Free Press in John Guare's "Museeka" at the Mark Taper Forum.  On screen, he has appeared with Robert De Niro, Orson Welles, Tuesday Weld, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis and John Astin. On television he has appeared in such shows as "Jag", "Men Behaving Badly", "Dave's World", "Night Court", "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", and General Hospital". On the silver screen, he has appeared in "A Safe Place", "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle",  He voiced "Howard", the father of Phil and Lil, for eight seasons on Nickelodeon's Emmy-award winning "Rugrats", reprising the role in the "Rugrats in Paris" movie. Other animation voice work also the villainous son of the Red Skull on "Spiderman", the chief bushrat in "Taz-Mania", King Gerard on H-B's "Smurfs", four seasons on Fox-TV's "The TICK" episodes, and "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego".  And his new book; , “Where's my Fortune Cookie?" The hilarious, startling biography of Phil Proctor, the co-founder of the legendary satirical comedy group, the Firesign Theatre. Includes over 120 rare photos, illustrating his work in comedy recordings, TV, film and even the Broadway stage.  

Thought exercise for the day. How many friends between you and anyone on the planet? Topics: Social connection on Earth in 2023, Network theory, Math geek special, logarithm In popular culture this number is often referred to as Six Degrees of Separation, that all people on the planet are at the maximum six or fewer social connections away from each other. The idea likely originated in a 1929 short story and became notable in 1990 in John Guare's play of the same name, Six Degrees of Separation.

Patrick Fabian is an award-winning actor who you may recognise from his iconic role as Howard Hamlin in Better Call Saul.  He's guest starred on almost everything: Friends, NCIS, Will and Grace, Hot in Cleveland, Star Trek:Voyager, Lucifer, Code Black, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Grimm, Scorpion, The Newsroom, Longmire, Castle, Scandal", CSI/CSI:Miami/CSI:NY, The Mentalist, Desperate Housewives, Xena the Warrior Princess, Criminal Minds, Bones, Ugly Betty, Reba, Pushing Daises, According to Jim, Drop Dead Diva, Private Practice, Burn Notice, Princess. Recurring roles include "Big Love, Veronica Mars, Joan of Arcadia, Providence, 24, Time of your Life, General Hospital, Working Class, Dharma and Greg, Valentine and The Education of Max Bickford. Patrick is fondly remembered as 'Professor Lasky' from Saved By The Bell:The College Years. Patrick was also the male lead in "The Last Exorcism" which was a small, 1.3 million dollar horror film that went on to gross over $70 Million worldwide. Fans loved his portrayal of the flawed Rev Cotton Marcus and he was awarded Best Actor at the prestigious Stiges Catalonian International Film Festival in 2010. Other films include Jimmy, Must Love Dogs, Tales of Everyday Magic, Bad Ass, Atlas Shrugged Part 2, Pig, My Greatest Teacher, The Good Mother, Underdogs, Bad Asses and My Eleventh. On the Disney and ABC Family Channels, Patrick has been a go-to Bad Guy, playing the Evil 'Thantos' in Disney Channels' Twitches and Twitches, Too and the only man hunting reindeer in the Christmas movies Snow and Snow 2: Brain Freeze and Cloud 9. On stage, Patrick has worked with some of the best playwrights and directors around: having toured America with John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation directed by Jerry Zaks, Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty directed by Jo Bonney at The McCarter Center in Princeton and Nicky Silver's The Food Chain directed by Robert Falls at the Westside Theatre in NYC. He also voices Harvey Dent in Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham which is coming out soon. We chat about why he loves Cameo, the highs and lows of a 30+ year career, disappointments, no's and rejections, his gratitude mindset, expectations, Better Call Saul and enjoyment plus more! The video footage of this entire chat is now out as well (one day after release)! So check them out on YouTube under Michael Kahan Check Patrick out on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrpatrickfabian/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatrickFabian   Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/mrpatrickfabian Website: https://www.patrickfabian.com/ ------------------------------------------- Follow @Funny in Failure on Instagram and Facebook https://www.instagram.com/funnyinfailure/ https://www.facebook.com/funnyinfailure/ and @Michael_Kahan on Insta & Twitter to keep up to date with the latest info. https://www.instagram.com/michael_kahan/ https://twitter.com/Michael_Kahan  

For this week's episode, John Squared talks about the 1971 production of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", a musical based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Listen in as the pair talk about the absurd nature of the material and how it doesn't always make sense, the okay-ness of the resulting material, and where this show sits in the legacy of the rather stacked 1971 Broadway season. Music by Galt MacDermot Lyrics by John Guare Book by John Guare and Mel Shapiro Based on the play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare Find the episode on your favorite podcast app or by going to https://anchor.fm/musicalminutes Intro and outro music ("BeBop 25") provided under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com Have a question for John or John? Want to leave feedback or tell us how wrong we are? Email us at musicalminutespodcast@gmail.com For more info on our hosts - please visit https://norine62.wixsite.com/musicalminutes

Neil Pepe is an acclaimed director and has been the Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992. Neil has been a master teacher at the Atlantic Acting School at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and an associate adjunct professor of directing at Columbia University Graduate Film Division. He has been a guest at The O'Neill Playwrights Conference as well as the American Theatre Wing. Neil holds an Honorary Doctorate as well as a BA from Kenyon College in Ohio. He has served on the Board of ART/NY as well as the Selection Committee for Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Award as well as the Pew Charitable Trust in Philadelphia.  As a director, Neil's Broadway credits include David Mamet;s American Buffalo, Doug Wright, Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green's musical Hands on a Hardbody, the acclaimed revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, as well as Mamet's A Life in the Theatre. At the Atlantic, Neil has most recently directed John Guare's 3 Kinds of Exile, Moira Buffini's Dying For It, Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song, Mojo and The Night Heron. Other Off-Broadway and Regional credits include: Ethan Coen's Happy Hour, Offices and Almost an Evening; Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room; Adam Rapp's Dreams of Flying, Dreams of Falling; David Mamet's American Buffalo (Donmar Warehouse, Atlantic); Romance, Keep Your Pantheon/School (Center Theatre Group, Atlantic); Zinnie Harris' Further than the Furthest Thing (Manhattan Theater Club); Jessica Goldberg's Refuge (Playwrights Horizons); Frank Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses with Martin Sheen (CTG) and Eric Bogosian's Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Katie checks in with screenwriter (The Lake House), director (Side Effects at MCC, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Skin of Our Teeth, Petrified Forest at Berkshire Theatre Group), and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Skyscraper, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Proof), David Auburn.

This episode we're traveling back to 1993 and checking the screening times for Six Degrees of Separation starring Will Smith, Stockard Channing, and Donald Sutherland. This film adaptation of the popular play is a big break for Will Smith that showcases his range and abilities as an actor beyond the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Directed by Fred Schepisi and the screenplay written by original writer John Guare. Will this be a movie rental fav or a movie theater regret? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/loyaloats/message

I'm so excited to welcome back John Lloyd Young who won the Tony & Grammy Award for originating the role of Frankie Valli in the Tony Award Winning musical Jersey Boys. In this episode, we discuss Jersey Boys stage mishaps, John Lloyd's Feinstein's/54 Below concerts & in the last 10 minutes we take some fan questions! Feinstein's/54 Below Concerts: January 25-28 & 30: John Lloyd Young: Broadway's Jersey Boy - a celebration of classic hits from the ‘50s and ‘60s presented in the authentic acoustic style of original rock ‘n' roll, Doo-Wop and R&B standards. Get In-person tickets January 29: John Lloyd Young's Broadway - interprets the showstoppers that shaped John Lloyd's earliest Broadway aspirations. Get In-Person Tickets, Get Livestream Tickets Connect with John Lloyd: Website Twitter Instagram YouTube SoundCloud Like What You Hear? Join my Patreon Family to get backstage perks including advanced notice of interviews, the ability to submit a question to my guests, behind-the-scene videos, and so much more! Follow me @callmeadamnyc on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Visit: https://callmeadam.com for my print/video interviews Special Thanks: My Patreon Family for their continued support: Angelo, Reva, Alan, Marianne, Danielle, Tara, Alex, and The Golden Gays NYC. Join the fun at https://patreon.com/callmeadamnyc. Theme Song by Bobby Cronin (https://bit.ly/2MaADvQ) Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell (https://bit.ly/2YNI9CY) Edited by Adam Rothenberg Outro Music Underscore by CueTique (Website: https://bit.ly/31luGmT, Facebook: @CueTique) More on John Lloyd: Film, stage & concert artist, John Lloyd Young, is a Tony & Grammy winner, multi-Platinum recording artist & Presidential Appointee. As the original “Frankie Valli” in Broadway's Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd garnered unprecedented accolades from the New York & national media, going on to become the only American actor to date to win all four major Broadway Leading Actor in a Musical honors for a Broadway debut: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle & Theatre World Award. John Lloyd starred in Jersey Boys on London's West End & was hand-picked by director Clint Eastwood to reprise his role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation, becoming one of only a select-few actors in entertainment history to take his Tony-winning role to the big screen. Over the years, John Lloyd has sung selections from Jersey Boys several times at the White House, in the halls of Congress & to Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, the Prime Minister & First Lady, Shinzo and Akie Abe, of Japan & the President & First Lady of Finland, Sauli Niinistö & Jenni Haukio. As a concert artist, John Lloyd has taken his expertly-curated repertoire of classic pop & R&B to filled-to-capacity rooms, thrilling his audiences with a “disciplined one-in-a-million high tenor shading into falsetto that he can direct through the stratosphere” (The New York Times). He has played The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Finland, Clint Eastwood's Tehama Country Club, New York's Café Carlyle, Feinstein's in NY & San Francisco, Radio City Music Hall, the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade & New Year's Eve in Times Square. Appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Barack Obama, John Lloyd was sworn in at the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Elena Kagan. As a member of the Committee, John Lloyd represented the United States on the first U.S. Cultural Mission to the Republic of Cuba, along with fellow Committee members Kal Penn & Alfre Woodard, guest artists Usher, Smokey Robinson, Dave Matthews, violinist Joshua Bell, playwright John Guare, U.S. arts officials, including the Chairs of the NEA & the Smithsonian Institution, and members of Congress. P.S. This interview was originally presented on Instagram Live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight, we talked with Lane Savadove, the Founding Artistic Director of EgoPo Classic Theater about performing during pandemic, EgoPo's upcoming season Awakenings and Transformations, and much more, featuring several special appearances by his daughter on location attending a very special birthday party (https://www.egopo.org).~~~~~~~Lane Savadove is the Founding Artistic Director of EgoPo Classic Theater, now in its 27th season.Lane has directed over 40 shows for EgoPo, Off-Broadway, regionally in San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans, Provincetown, Philadelphia and on National Public Radio. He was the resident director of the National Cultural Center of Indonesia (1996-7), Artistic Director of Jean Cocteau Repertory (2004-5), and Associate Artistic Director of the Living Theater (1989-90).An Independence Foundation Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, Shubert Fellow, Henry Luce Fellow, TCG Leadership recipient. His works include: Beckett's Company (NPR and 6 cities); world premiere of Tennessee Williams' House Not Meant to Stand (Southern Repertory); Wedekind's Spring Awakening (Phila, New Orleans), Maeterlinck's Bluebird (Phila.), the world premiere of John Guare's 10-hour Lydie Breeze Trilogy. Savadove's staging of Chekhov's Seagull won the company the 2017 Barrymore award for Best Production. He holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and BA from Haverford College. Lane was a Professor of Acting and Directing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, The National University of Indonesia, and Head of Directing at Loyola-New Orleans. He is currently Head of Acting and Directing and Full Professor of Theater at Rowan University in New Jersey.Creating in Philadelphia: "It can be easy to accept the estimation that we're not a place that's bursting with deep thinkers because so many outsiders see us strictly as inhabitants of a blue collar city...and, of course, that's complete nonsense. It's been my experience that there's plenty of brain power generated on a daily basis, and I think that's particularly evident when you look at theater companies and what they're collectively trying to convey to us, namely, that it's perfectly acceptable to seek answers and apply your findings for the good of so many.” - Lane SavadoveEgo Po Classic Theater Season 2021-2022Awakenings and TransformationsAlice: not your child's wonderlandBased on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAdapted by Dane Eissler & Jenna KuerziDirected by Dane EisslerAt Glen Foerd, public park and museum, 5001 Grant AveSeason Launch Event: Tuesday, September 28thFringe Performances: Wednesday and Thursday, September 29th and 30thTickets and more info at www.egopo.org/aliceWine in the Wildernessby Alice ChildressDirected by Damien J. WallacePerforms Jan 19-30 at the Louis Bluver at the DrakeLife is a DreamBased on the play by Pedro Calderon de la BarcaCreated by Brenna Geffers & Felipe VergaraDirected by Brenna GeffersPerforms March 16-27 at Theatre ExileCurse of the Starving Classby Sam ShepardDirected by Lane SavadovePerforms June 15-26 at Drexel's URBN Center Annex Black Box~~~~~~~To explore past episodes of Into the Absurd, visit our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pg/IdiopathicRidiculopathyConsortium/videos/ORThe IRC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist...And while you're there, be sure to SUBSCRIBE, so you don't miss any future episodes.

Stockard Channing is a highly accomplished American stage, television, and film actor, who made her Broadway debut in the 1971 Broadway musical adaptation of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." She is perhaps best known to audiences for playing the feisty Betty Rizzo in the classic film musical, “Grease,” and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the seminal NBC television drama, “The West Wing.” She originated the role of socialite Ouisa Kittredge in the acclaimed stage and film versions of “Six Degrees of Separation,” for which she was nominated for a Tony and an Oscar. Miss Channing won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress for the Broadway revival of “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,” and has won three Emmy Awards  for her work on The West Wing  as well as for her performance as Judy Shepherd in “The Matthew Shepard Story.” Other film appearances include “The Fortune,” “ The Big Bus,”  Neil Simon's “The Cheap Detective,” and “Practical Magic.” She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the popular CBS drama “The Good Wife.” 

What do Patti LuPone & Clint Eastwood have in common with Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young? They both have taught him life lessons. In the second part of my interview with the Tony & Grammy Award Winner, John Lloyd Young is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about those lessons learned + some Broadway secrets he has never revealed before! Missed Part 1 of my interview with John Lloyd Young? Click Here to Listen John Lloyd Youngs's next Live Stream concert will be Friday, March 19, 2021 at Feinstein's at Vitello's: Click here for tickets! Connect with John Lloyd: Website Twitter Instagram YouTube SoundCloud Like What You Hear? Join my Patreon Family to get backstage perks including advanced notice of interviews, the ability to submit a question to my guests, behind-the-scene videos, and so much more! Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Visit: https://callmeadam.com for more my print/video interviews Special Thanks: My Patreon Family for their continued support: Angelo, Reva and Alan, Marianne, Danielle, Tara, Alex, and The Golden Gays NYC. Join the fun at https://patreon.com/callmeadamnyc. Theme Song by Bobby Cronin (https://bit.ly/2MaADvQ) Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell (https://bit.ly/2YNI9CY) Edited by Drew Kaufman (https://bit.ly/2OXqOnw) Outro Music Underscore by CueTique (Website: https://bit.ly/31luGmT, Facebook: @CueTique) More on John Lloyd: Film, stage and concert artist, John Lloyd Young, is a Tony and Grammy winner, multi-Platinum recording artist and Presidential Appointee. As the original “Frankie Valli” in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd garnered unprecedented accolades from the New York and national media, going on to become the only American actor to date to win all four major Broadway Leading Actor in a Musical honors for a Broadway debut: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award. John Lloyd starred in Jersey Boys on London’s West End, and was hand-picked by director Clint Eastwood to reprise his role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation, becoming one of only a select-few actors in entertainment history to take his Tony-winning role to the big screen. Over the years, John Lloyd has sung selections from Jersey Boys several times at the White House, in the halls of Congress, and to Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, the Prime Minister and First Lady, Shinzo and Akie Abe, of Japan and the President and First Lady of Finland, Sauli Niinistö and Jenni Haukio. As a concert artist, John Lloyd has taken his expertly-curated repertoire of classic pop and R&B to filled-to-capacity rooms, thrilling his audiences with a “disciplined one-in-a-million high tenor shading into falsetto that he can direct through the stratosphere” (The New York Times). He has played The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Finland, Clint Eastwood’s Tehama Country Club, New York’s Café Carlyle, Feinstein’s in NY and San Francisco, Radio City Music Hall, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Barack Obama, John Lloyd was sworn in at the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Elena Kagan. As a member of the Committee, John Lloyd represented the United States on the first U.S. Cultural Mission to the Republic of Cuba, along with fellow Committee members Kal Penn and Alfre Woodard, guest artists Usher, Smokey Robinson, Dave Matthews, violinist Joshua Bell, playwright John Guare, U.S. arts officials, including the Chairs of the NEA and the Smithsonian Institution, and members of Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Broadway's Jersey Boys, Tony & Grammy Award Winner John Lloyd Young bares it all about what it was really like to star in a blockbuster Tony Award winning musical, both on stage and off. John Lloyd additionally reveals the inside scoop on: Working with Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood on the Jersey Boys film His upcoming virtual live-streaming Valentine's Day concert from Las Vegas' The Space on February 12 (click here for tickets) How John Lloyd connects to his audiences Rapid Fire Questions This interview has been split into two episodes. The second part of this interview, focusing on Lessons Learned, will be released at a later date. Connect with John Lloyd: Website Twitter Instagram YouTube SoundCloud Like What You Hear? Join my Patreon Family to get backstage perks including advanced notice of interviews, the ability to submit a question to my guests, behind-the-scene videos, and so much more! Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Visit: https://callmeadam.com for more my print/video interviews Special Thanks: My Patreon Family for their continued support: Angelo, Reva and Alan, Marianne, Danielle, Tara, and The Golden Gays NYC. Join the fun at https://patreon.com/callmeadamnyc. Theme Song by Bobby Cronin (https://bit.ly/2MaADvQ) Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell (https://bit.ly/2YNI9CY) Edited by Drew Kaufman (https://bit.ly/2OXqOnw) Outro Music Underscore by CueTique (Website: https://bit.ly/31luGmT, Facebook: @CueTique) More on John Lloyd: Film, stage and concert artist, John Lloyd Young, is a Tony and Grammy winner, multi-Platinum recording artist and Presidential Appointee. As the original “Frankie Valli” in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd garnered unprecedented accolades from the New York and national media, going on to become the only American actor to date to win all four major Broadway Leading Actor in a Musical honors for a Broadway debut: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award. John Lloyd starred in Jersey Boys on London’s West End, and was hand-picked by director Clint Eastwood to reprise his role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation, becoming one of only a select-few actors in entertainment history to take his Tony-winning role to the big screen. Over the years, John Lloyd has sung selections from Jersey Boys several times at the White House, in the halls of Congress, and to Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, the Prime Minister and First Lady, Shinzo and Akie Abe, of Japan and the President and First Lady of Finland, Sauli Niinistö and Jenni Haukio. As a concert artist, John Lloyd has taken his expertly-curated repertoire of classic pop and R&B to filled-to-capacity rooms, thrilling his audiences with a “disciplined one-in-a-million high tenor shading into falsetto that he can direct through the stratosphere” (The New York Times). He has played The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Finland, Clint Eastwood’s Tehama Country Club, New York’s Café Carlyle, Feinstein’s in NY and San Francisco, Radio City Music Hall, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Barack Obama, John Lloyd was sworn in at the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Elena Kagan. As a member of the Committee, John Lloyd represented the United States on the first U.S. Cultural Mission to the Republic of Cuba, along with fellow Committee members Kal Penn and Alfre Woodard, guest artists Usher, Smokey Robinson, Dave Matthews, violinist Joshua Bell, playwright John Guare, U.S. arts officials, including the Chairs of the NEA and the Smithsonian Institution, and members of Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lane Savadove is the Founding Artistic Director of EgoPo Classic Theater, now in its 27th season.Lane has directed over 40 shows for EgoPo, Off-Broadway, regionally in San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans, Provincetown, Philadelphia and on National Public Radio. He was the resident director of the National Cultural Center of Indonesia (1996-7), Artistic Director of Jean Cocteau Repertory (2004-5), and Associate Artistic Director of the Living Theater (1989-90).An Independence Foundation Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, Shubert Fellow, Henry Luce Fellow, TCG Leadership recipient. His works include: Beckett’s Company (NPR and 6 cities); world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ House Not Meant to Stand (Southern Repertory); Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (Phila, New Orleans), Maeterlinck’s Bluebird (Phila.), the world premiere of John Guare’s 10-hour Lydie Breeze Trilogy. Savadove's staging of Chekhov’s Seagull won the company the 2017 Barrymore award for Best Production. Lane holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and BA from Haverford College. Lane was a Professor of Acting and Directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The National University of Indonesia, and Head of Directing at Loyola-New Orleans. He is currently Head of Acting and Directing and Full Professor of Theater at Rowan University in New Jersey.

Inspiration is often an assertive act -- simply waiting around for it doesn't guarantee its arrival. Go forth and talk to ghosts. Mentioned in this episode: Concord, Massachusetts; public library; Henry David Thoreau; Sophia Thoreau; Thoreau's "Walking"; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ticknor & Fields; John Guare; Thornton Wilder; Wilder's "Our Town"; William Wordsworth; Tintern Abbey; Prague; Rilke; Kafka; Glen Ellen, California; Jack London; London's "The Call of the Wild"; American Civil War; Walt Whitman; Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"  Music: "Family" by Josh Leake; "The Art of Loneliness" by ANBR; "La Stanza di Nelson 2" by Bottega Baltazar; "On the Trail" by Cameron Mackay (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) Reprised from the ITA Archives --- 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/in-the-atelier/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/in-the-atelier/support

Inspiration is often an assertive act, and pilgrimage is one way to harness it. Mentioned in this episode: Concord, Massachusetts; public library; Henry David Thoreau; Sophia Thoreau; Thoreau's "Walking"; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ticknor & Fields; John Guare; Thornton Wilder; Wilder's "Our Town"; William Wordsworth; Tintern Abbey; Prague; Rilke; Kafka; Glen Ellen, California; Jack London; London's "The Call of the Wild"; American Civil War; Walt Whitman; Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"  Music: "Family" by Josh Leake; "The Art of Loneliness" by ANBR; "La Stanza di Nelson 2" by Bottega Baltazar; "On the Trail" by Cameron Mackay (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- 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/in-the-atelier/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/in-the-atelier/support

AP English Literature and Composition develops students’ skills from previous study of British and American literature and prepares students for the rigorous end-of-year exam. Students will familiarize themselves with a wide range of literary responses to the human condition and participate in the discourse at an intensive level demonstrating independence of thought. Students will experience an abundance of literary voices such as Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, John Guare, Thomas Hardy, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, Chan-rae Lee, Toni Morrison, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard and Virginia Woolf. As this course intends to simulate a college-level seminar, students will be expected to achieve clarity of expression in discussion as well as in writing. Students will be encouraged to engage in literary dialogue with their peers and instructor, so the environment will be dynamic and student-centered. College-level writing skills will be stressed. Close textual analysis and interpretive essay writing will be practiced daily with a view towards considerations of structure, style, theme and socio-historical context. Frequent timed essays and occasional objective exams on reading assignments will model the AP exam. Informal, exploratory writing activities will serve as aids in prompting discussion and in evaluating whether or not students are balancing generalizations and specific illustrative details. Revision skills will be refined through peer editing and teacher evaluation. Assessments include one-on-one conferencing between instructor and student, rubric creation and analysis, and written feedback regarding prose style, rhetoric, and attention to standard grammar and syntax. In semester two, students will complete a researched essay. Prerequisite for AP English Literature and Composition: English 3 or Honors English 3 and departmental approval. UC approved. The English department offers a variety of electives for seniors, which will stimulate their interest through courses that are designed to deepen appreciation for literature. Course offerings focus on genres, literary periods, the history of ideas, individual authors or literary stylistics. Electives offered in the fall semester require a subject-specific research essay. With the exception of AP English: Literature and Composition, juniors, with approval, may take the electives in addition to the required English 3 course. Interview with: Dr. Paskali Produced by: Evan Cheng

MEET VALORIE HUBBARD Valorie Hubbard owns the company, Actor’s Fast Track, where she consults with working actors about their career paths. Having navigated her own career, she knows the pitfalls and successes of the path and how to avoid the one and create the other. She gives actors the tools they need to get recognized. Her first book, The Actors Workbook: how to become a working actor, (https://amzn.to/2oMVwzu) published by Allyn Amp Bacon Publishers, co-written with Lea Tolub-Brandenberg, teaches readers how to transition from student acting to professional work. Lively and engaging, the book also gives educators content for teaching. In her newest book, Actor’s Fast Track: Changing the Way Actors Do Business (https://amzn.to/2oLSn32) , she shows professional actors how to create and operate their acting career as a successful business – and how to move from being “stuck” into the limelight. Valorie was born to act. Her first starring performance was at the age of three when, much to the dismay of her mother, she dramatically threw herself down a staircase – and she’s has been acting ever since. Attending The Goodman School of Drama, she spent 20 years performing in New York. Notable favorite credits there include The Crucible at The Roundabout Theatre, The Country Boy at Irish Rep and The Sweepers and The Queen Bee’s Last Stand at Urban Stages. Also performing in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Missouri Rep and The Lab Theatre in Poland, Valorie was a member of the last international company to work at the Lab Theatre. She’s also collaborated with an amazing range of acting professionals including John Guare, Joseph Chaiken, Toni Kotite, Neel Keller, Terry Schreiber and Zbigniew Cynkutis. Moving to Los Angeles 10 years ago, Valorie launched into screen. Film credits include Sex, Death and Bowling; Trigger; A Better Life; An American Christmas Carol; Divorce Invitation; The Hannah Montana Movie; Smell of Success; Pennance; Resident Evil: Extinction; Parasomnia; Henry Fool; Wrestling with Alligators; Gameday; and the Hallmark Christmas movie Help for the Holidays. TV Credits include roles on Castle, Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D; How I Met Your Mother; Glee; American Horror Story; Workaholics; True Blood; 90210; ER; Desperate Housewives; The Middle; Zeke and Luther; Good Luck Charlie; I’m in the Band; a recurring role on Kickin It and General Hospital; HUGE; The Job; Missing Persons; Comedy Central’s; American Body Shop and Chocolate News. She also plays the “hot” Rhonda in the recent release of video game Dead Rising 3. Valorie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Chef Gill Boyd and dog Gracie CONTACT: www.aftgamechanger.com (http://www.aftgamechanger.com) Actors Fastrack Event – $297 TEXT the word ACTOR to 38470 for $100 off. Email: sara@actorsfasttrack.com (mailto:sara@actorsfasttrack.com) SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Click on this link and Help support this podcast because I love puppies : ) https://www.patreon.com/advanceyourart (https://www.patreon.com/advanceyourart) This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audiobooks. Click on the link to get a 30-day free trial, complete with a credit for a free audiobook download Audible.com (http://www.audibletrial.com/Yuri) QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

Stockard Channing and Anna Sale recreate the Review's 1956 interview with Dorothy Parker; writer Idra Novey talks about the taste of the letter "H"; Helga Davis reads Alexia Arthurs short story BAD BEHAVIOR; acclaimed playwright John Guare shares former Review editor Blair Fuller's true story AN EVENING WITH JD SALINGER; and Jeff Gleaves, the Review's Digital Director, recites Elena Wilkinson's poem AFTER THE LOSS OF A LIMB.

For the beginning of our second season(ish), we're doing something completely different: Profiling one of our favorite playwrights-turned-filmmakers, Martin McDonagh! CONTACT THE SHOW: BrosBeforeShows@AOL.com Hosted by Robert Tiemstra (@The_Timestar) and Matthew Tiemstra (@ClockworkPlay) Next week: Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare!

Allison Janney, a seven-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, had dreams of becoming an Olympic figure skater. That dream ended when, at age 17, she ran through a sliding glass window. The injury was serious, and, suddenly Allison's future goals shifted. She found herself at Kenyon College and she became a theater major. While at Kenyon Allison was discovered by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward who had come to the college to direct a play at their alma mater. They encouraged Janney to go to NYC and pursue a career in acting professionally. What happened after that is the subject of this funny and intimate conversation with host Ilana Levine, a dear friend of Allison's. The two met and became fast friends when Ilana was starring in the HBO series "Tanner 88" with a mutual friend. Allison walks us through her audition for "The West Wing" and opens up about why the recent loss of her brother makes starring on the CBS hit show "Mom" all the more important for her during this emotional time. The incredibly versatile Allison Janney has taken her place among a select group of actors who combine a leading lady’s profile with a character actor’s art of performance. Currently starring alongside Anna Faris in the CBS/Chuck Lorre sitcom, “Mom,” Janney also received rave reviews for her turn as ‘Margaret Scully’ on Showtime’s groundbreaking drama “Masters of Sex.” Janney won Emmys for both roles in the same year; a rare feat in Emmy history. She won a second Emmy for “Mom” the following year, bringing her total number of ATAS statues to seven. She was also recently honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition, Janney has continually taken on movie roles during her hiatus weeks from the sitcom. She’s completed filming “I, Tonya” with Margot Robbie for Miramax Films. Janney also appeared in two of the previous summer’s biggest box office titles: the adorably animated “Minions” and “Spy” with Melissa McCarthy. Prior feature work includes “The Duff,” Jason Bateman’s directorial debut “Bad Words,” the Dreamworks’ animated film “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” and “The Way, Way Back” with Steve Carell and Toni Collette. Additionally she co-starred in the much anticipated feature film "The Help" based on the best-selling novel of the same name, winning the Ensemble awards from the Screen Actors Guild, National Board of Review and the Broadcast Film Critics. For her role in Todd Solondz's film "Life During Wartime" she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Spirit Awards. She received another Spirit Award nomination for her work in the independent feature “Our Very Own,” and starred opposite Meryl Streep in “The Hours,” which received a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture. Other feature credits include the Academy Award winning film “American Beauty” (for which she won a SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture) as well as “Nurse Betty,” “How to Deal,” “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” “10 Things I Hate About You,” “Primary Colors,” “The Ice Storm,” “Six Days Seven Nights,” “The Object of My Affection,” and “Big Night.” On TV, she is renowned for her starring role in the acclaimed NBC series "The West Wing," where she won a remarkable four Emmy Awards and four SAG Awards for her portrayal of White House Press Secretary ‘CJ Cregg.’ She made her Broadway debut in Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” for which she earned the Outer Critics Circle Award and Clarence Derwent Award. She also appeared in Arthur Miller’s "A View from the Bridge," receiving her first Tony Award nomination and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award as well as the musical "9 to 5," Janney made her return to Broadway earlier this year in the revival of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation."

John Benjamin Hickey, who won a Tony for his role in “The Normal Heart,” isn't a stranger to the grueling schedule of theater. He started hosting his own radio show on Sirius. But the Julliard-trained thespian was itching to be on Broadway, and is enjoying being in the revival of John Guare’s 1990 Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play, “Six Degrees of Separation.” For starters, it means being reunited with Allison Janney. We spoke about contrived intimacy, dating within your profession, and why Six Degrees of Separation is sadly still timely. Find out more and purchase tickets to the live show at http://employeeofthemonthshow.com This episode was produced by Rob Schulte http://robkschulte.com

Marco welcomes Daniel Krolik to talk about plays, playwrights and performances. From Stephen Karam to David Mamet to John Guare, the world of the theatre on this episode. Stay tuned for a part two.Host: Marco TimpanoGuest: Daniel KrolikProducers: Drumcast ProductionsTheme Music: Royalty Free: Bass Walker, Kevin MacLeodThe Insomnia Project mundane conversation to help you drift into a state of slumber. Not every episode will bring you to sleep but our goal is to at the very least get you to a relaxed state. Please do not operate heavy machinery while listening to our podcast.Follow along the conversation without really being interested; if you don't get to the end because you fall asleep, well you paid us the biggest compliment. Want to get extra Insomnia Project content?Go to our Patreon page:www.patreon.com/theinsomniaprojectFor information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lynne Meadow is a theatre producer, director and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972. In that position she has directed and produced more than 450 New York City and world premieres of plays by American and international playwrights, including Terrence McNally, Beth Henley, John Guare, Athol Fugard, and John Patrick Shanley. Under her leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Obie Awards, and Drama Desk Awards, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Theatre World Awards. In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Her directing credits include Sally and Marsha, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Absent Friends and The Commons of Pensacola (2013). I asked her a whole bunch of other questions about how she built MTC into the institution it is today. Listen in to hear her talk about: The day she challenged The Yale School of Drama’s policy on accepting women (you won’t believe what they said to her)! How she creates a season . . . and how it’s not like going to a buffet. Why she is one of the few Artistic Directors of a major Non-Profit that actually directs! How to get your script in her hands. Starting a theater company? Hear her advice. Tune into this master pod-class on . . . well . . . on so many things. Because Lynne is not only one of the few people that do it all . . . but she does it all so very, very well. Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig & Carla discuss Craig's 94th favorite movie, 1989's Say Anything, as well as why John Cusack was the Lena Dunham of the '80s, how to pronounce John Guare's name (Craig is wrong)and the behind-the-scenes SCOOP on Carla's appearance in High Fidelity!

It’s spring in Hell’s Kitchen in Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday by Tony winner John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation) and family members don't seem to be facing the real crisis at hand. It features theater luminaries Lois Smith (Grapes of Wrath), Peter Maloney (Requiem for a Dream), Julie White (The Little Dog Laughed), Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park), and as the nosy neighbor, Carol Kane ("Taxi," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"). Directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the artists moderated by our Artistic Director Claudia Catania. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience.

Listen in as Paul talks about the complexities of war, how the world is “not settling down” and about his encounter with absolutes.Film SynopsisTrailer here.IMDB here. Paul Gross (Passchendaele) directs and co-stars in this taut war drama about Canadian troops in Afghanistan weathering Taliban attacks while struggling to complete construction on a crucial highway link.Writer-director-star Paul Gross’ new film portrays the heroic duties undertaken by Canadian armed forces in Afghanistan with the same gut-wrenching immediacy that Gross brought to the blood-soaked Belgian battlefields of World War I in his epic Passchendaele. Hyena Road is a masterful examination of modern warfare that drops viewers straight into the belly of the beast.Depicting an embattled Canadian- American initiative to increase safe transport across Afghanistan, Hyena Road is a group portrait of men and women at work in a dangerous and often confounding conflict zone.We meet a sniper (Rossif Sutherland who becomes precariously implicated in the life of one of his targets — as well as the life of an alluring colleague (Christine Horne). There’s an intelligence officer whose customary world-weary wisecracks — “Even the dirt is hostile” — veil a fundamental belief in the ethics of war.And the film introduces us to a legendary former mujahid known as The Ghost (Neamat Arghandabi) who, for mysterious reasons, is lured back into the battle zone to assist the Canadian forces.All these characters’ trajectories collide in ways that illustrate the triumphs and frustrations that occur amid the moral uncertainty of war. Alternating between relatively tranquil scenes of life at the base and adrenalized sequences that thrust us into the heat of battle, Gross orchestrates a cinematic symphony of soldiering: the highs and lows, the brotherhood and barbarity.Hyena Road does what great war movies can do: it carefully examines the plight of a few so as to speak to the experience of many.BiographyPaul Gross is internationally known for his role as Constable Benton Fraser on themultiaward-winning drama series “Due South.” He was honoured with two GeminiAwards for Best Actor, and one Gemini Award for his writing on the series.  Gross also received two Gemini Awards for best performance by an actor in the critically acclaimed series “Slings & Arrows”. In 2000, Gross wrote, directed and starred in the feature film Men with Brooms, which was the highest-grossing English-language Canadian film of the previous 20 years.  He also starred in, co-wrote and produced the miniseries “H2O” as well as its sequel “The Trojan Horse”.In 2008 Gross released his feature film Passchendaele, a movie based on the famous First World War battle heroically fought by 50,000 Canadians in the bloodied fields of Ypres, Belgium. Passchendaele, which Gross wrote, directed and starred in, was the highest grossing Canadian film of 2008 with the box office reaching over $4.5 million, and won five Genie Awards, including Best Picture. He starred in the ABC series Eastwick based on the movie The Witches of Eastwick, opposite Rebecca Romijn, Jamie Ray Newman and Lindsay Price and the movie Gunless and also Executive Produced the series Cra$h & Burn and The Yard. Gross earned a degree in drama at the University of Alberta, and went on to perform extensively in Canadian regional theatres in addition to forging a writing career. His first play, The Deer and the Antelope Play, performed in Edmonton, won the Clifford E. Lee National Playwriting Award and the Alberta Cultural Playwriting Award (1982).His numerous acting credits also include starring roles in the television movies “Murder Most Likely”, “Getting Married in Buffalo Jump,” and “Buried on Sunday” and the miniseries “Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City,” and “Chasing Rainbows.” Gross also performed in the feature films Barney’s Version, Wilby Wonderful, Aspen Extreme, Cold Comfort, Paint Cans, Whale Music and Married To It.On stage, Gross performed the title role in the Stratford Festival’s 2000 production of Hamlet to record-setting audiences. He received a 1985 Dora Award nomination for his performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and a Dora Award for Best Performance for his role in the critically acclaimed North American premiere of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme (1988) which played at Toronto’s CanStage. In the Fall of 2011 he appeared in Noel Coward’s Private Lives opposite Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) on Broadway and at the Royal Alex in Toronto and in 2012 he starred in John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee? at the McCarter Theatre at Princeton. Gross has received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and the Pierre BurtonAward. He was recently appointed to the Order of Canada and also received the Earle Grey Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award, from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Deirdre Lovejoy. Deirdre is best known for her role on the HBO television series The Wire as Rhonda Pearlman. A familiar face to stage, she appeared recently on Broadway in the sold out run of Nora Ephron’s Tony Award winning Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks and has other Broadway credits including John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation plus numerous Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits. She has also appeared in the series Girls, Orange is the New Black, Bones, American Horror Story, Body of Proof, Private Practice, The Forgotten, The Medium, Criminal Minds, Lie to Me, The Closer, Nip/Tuck, Saving Grace, Strong Medicine, Outlaw, Close to Home, Shark, The Protector, The Lion's Den, The West Wing, Law & Order, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Cold Case, Close to Home, Numbers, Without a Trace, Brothers and Sisters, Eli Stone, NYPD Blue, Ed, Third Watch, Perfect Murder Perfect Town: The Jon Benet Ramsey Story, The Kennedys of Massachusetts and many more and films including the upcoming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (directed by Ang Lee), Thirsty, Step Up, Bad Teacher, The Stepfather, Lionhead, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gloria and Eric, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Random Hearts, Sour Grapes, Shaft, and The Freshman.

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A prestigious agent signed playwright John Guare before he had even graduated from Yale School of Drama, saying he showed promise. In the five decades since, Guare has been one of the most humane—and absurd—voices of American theater. He says "there's no such thing as a 'hit recipe,'" though if one existed, Guare would probably know about it; his acclaimed work includes The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film Atlantic City.   Lisa Dwan began dancing ballet with Rudolf Nureyev when she was just 12, and she carried that poise and fluidity with her as she evolved into an actor. She says nowhere is that more evident than in her recent interpretations of fellow Irishman Samuel Beckett. Dwan gathered critical acclaim for a grueling one-woman show featuring three of Beckett's most intense works: Rockaby, Footfalls, and Not I. The last of these is a stream-of-consciousness monologue, with only Dwan's mouth visible hovering over a black stage.     

She's a multiple Tony, Emmy, Obie, and Drama Desk Award winner, a Broadway icon, a film star and plays the hysterical character Joyce Flynn on the critically acclaimed long-running sitcom Mike & Molly. And she is the author of a brave and riveting memoir PART SWAN, PART GOOSE. She is actress Swoosie Kurtz and she'll be joining Halli at her table on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show,.With a name like Swoosie she was destined to lead an interesting life. From her first appearance on The Donna Reed Show to her Tony Award-winning roles in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July and John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves to her much-heralded turns on television series Sisters, Pushing Daisies and Mike & Molly, Swoosie has been embraced by critics and fans alike for her quirky, heartfelt, and always attention-getting performances.Born to become a stellar success, Swoosie is the only child of Frank and Margo Kurtz. Her father was an Olympic diving medalist and one of the most decorated aviators in American history. Her mother, nearing 100 years old is an accomplished, opinionated, and filled-to-bursting personality.The fascinating and accomplished Swoosie Kurtz visits The Halli Casser-Jayne Show. Let's talk. For more information visit goo.gl/PzLurH

Nantucket Red (Disney-Hyperion) We like to welcome back to Skylight, the wonderful Leila Howland with her follow-up to Nantucket Blue! Cricket Thompson's lifetime of overachieving has paid off: she's headed to Brown University in the fall, with a spot on the lacrosse team and a scholarship that covers "almost" everything. Who knew living in the dorm cost money? An Ivy League education seems to mean living at home for the next four years. When Cricket is offered the chance to earn enough cash to afford a real college experience, she heads back to Nantucket for the summer. But the faraway island challenges Cricket in ways she hadn't anticipated. It's hard to focus on earning money for next year, when she finds her world opening up in entirely new ways-to art, to travel, and, most unexpectedly, to a future completely different from the one she has been working toward her whole life. A friendship blossoms with Ben, the gorgeous surfer and bartender who encourages Cricket to be free, even as she smarts at the pain of seeing Zack, her first love, falling for her worst enemy. But one night, when Cricket finally lets herself break all her own rules, she realizes she may have ruined her carefully constructed future with one impulsive decision. Cricket must dig deep to fight for her future, discovering that success isn't just about reaching goals, but also about listening to what she's been trying to ignore-her own heart. A graduate of Georgetown University, Leila Howland spent five years acting in New York in everything from an MTV public service announcement for safe sex to a John Guare play at Lincoln Center and was a proud company member of the award-winning Flea Theater in Tribeca. Currently, she teaches high school English and English as a second language in downtown Los Angeles and occasionally moonlights as an extra on the Young and the Restless. Nantucket Red is her second novel.

Gerry Kowarsky and guest host Mark Bretz review (1) THE WIZARD OF OZ, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, et al., at the Fox Theatre; (2) OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES, by Daniel Okrent & Peter Gethers, at the New Jewish Theatre; (3) BACHELORETTE, by Leslye Headland, at Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble; (4) ONE-HOUR TWILIGHT ZONE: LIVE!, at Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre; (5) THE NERD, by Larry Shue, at Dramatic License Productions; (6) 9 TO 5, by Dolly Parton & Patricia Resnick, at Kirkwood Theatre Guild; and (7) THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, by John Guare, at the Theatre Guild of Webster Groves.

NANTUCKET BLUE (Disney Press) Join us to celebrate the launch of a highly-anticipated new young adult novel from Disney Press! For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she'll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams. Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn't. When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew. And instead of lying on the beach working on her caramel-colored tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise for the summer. But it's the things Cricket hadn't counted on--most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits--that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality. A beautiful future is within her grasp, and Cricket must find the grace to embrace it. If she does, her life could be the perfect shade of Nantucket blue. “Debut author Howland's descriptions for everything from a summer storm (“The grass in the back yard was rain-drunk”) to the stirrings of first love (“There was this lightness that occasionally took me over, making me feel like I was made of balloons”) are lush and moving. Readers should feel empowered by Cricket's efforts to grow up into a strong, honest, and emotionally intelligent young woman, even as they are enchanted by the romantic and exclusive island setting. This is a natural beach read, but will easily win Howland year-round fans, too.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) A graduate of Georgetown University, Leila Howland spent five years acting in New York in everything from an MTV public service announcement for safe sex to a John Guare play at Lincoln Center and was a proud company member of the award-winning Flea Theater in Tribeca. Currently, she teaches high school English and English as a second language in downtown Los Angeles and occasionally moonlights as an extra on the Young and the Restless. This is her first novel. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MAY 24, 2013. COPIES OF THE BOOK FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE: http://www.skylightbooks.com/book/%5Bmodel%5D-64   

Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) THE WIZ, by Charlie Smalls & William F. Brown, at The Black Rep, (2) ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE, by Ted Swindley et al., at Stages St. Louis, (3) SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, by John Guare, at Stray Dog Theatre, (4) IL TABARRO & PAGLIACCI, by Puccini & Leoncavallo, at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, (5) CHAPTER TWO, by Neal Simon, at Insight Theatre Co., (6) KING LEAR, by William Shakespeare, at St. Louis Actors' Studio, (7) A TRIP TO THE MOON, at Circus Flora, (8) BUKOWSICAL, by Spencer Green & Gary Stockdale, at New Line Theatre, and (9) THE CHERRY SISTERS REVISITED, by Dan O'Brien, at R-S Theatrics.

John Guare talks about his two Broadway plays of the past season: considering how the world has caught up with and changed audience responses to "The House of Blue Leaves" and which portion of the play is drawn directly from his own life, as well as the origin of "A Free Man of Color" and whether it's his practice to write plays based on ideas suggested by others. He also discusses his development as a playwright while at Georgetown University and the Yale School of Drama; why being an Aquarius was instrumental in the start of his professional career; his never-completed collaboration with Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein; how "Two Gentlemen of Verona", a musical with 37 songs, was never meant to be a musical; finding a home at The Public Theatre and his conflicted emotions about being a part of the institution at that time, where such plays as "Landscape of the Body" and "Marco Polo Sings a Solo" premiered; how place affected his writing of the "Lydie Breeze" plays and why he chose to revisit and rework them 20 years later; when he first learned of a con man pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son and when that blossomed into "Six Degrees of Separation"; the impact of his work with Signature Theatre Company in New York, including the premiere of "Lake Hollywood", which incorporated a play he'd written 39 years earlier; and why he agreed to adapt "The Front Page" and its gender-shifted remake "His Girl Friday" for the stage. Original air date - June 22, 2011.

John Guare talks about his two Broadway plays of the past season: considering how the world has caught up with and changed audience responses to "The House of Blue Leaves" and which portion of the play is drawn directly from his own life, as well as the origin of "A Free Man of Color" and whether it's his practice to write plays based on ideas suggested by others. He also discusses his development as a playwright while at Georgetown University and the Yale School of Drama; why being an Aquarius was instrumental in the start of his professional career; his never-completed collaboration with Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein; how "Two Gentlemen of Verona", a musical with 37 songs, was never meant to be a musical; finding a home at The Public Theatre and his conflicted emotions about being a part of the institution at that time, where such plays as "Landscape of the Body" and "Marco Polo Sings a Solo" premiered; how place affected his writing of the "Lydie Breeze" plays and why he chose to revisit and rework them 20 years later; when he first learned of a con man pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son and when that blossomed into "Six Degrees of Separation"; the impact of his work with Signature Theatre Company in New York, including the premiere of "Lake Hollywood", which incorporated a play he'd written 39 years earlier; and why he agreed to adapt "The Front Page" and its gender-shifted remake "His Girl Friday" for the stage. Original air date - June 22, 2011.

Stockard Channing discusses her work in Jon Robin Baitz's new play "Other Desert Cities", acknowledging the ambiguity of the character for the audience and explaining whether she has defined her character's secret motivations with certainty. She also talks about her years breaking into theatre at Harvard, alongside other students like John Lithgow and Tommy Lee Jones, and her subsequent work around Boston before coming to New York and getting her increasingly bigger break in the Broadway musical "Two Gentlemen of Verona", which also began her association with John Guare; her years in Los Angeles, including a film gig she did simply because she needed money, namely "Grease"; her return to the stage in successive productions of "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" at Williamstown, Long Wharf, Roundabout and finally Broadway; being given the opportunity to choose between playing Bunny and Bananas in the Lincoln Center Theatre revival of "The House of Blue Leaves"; how it felt, as a native Upper East Side New Yorker, playing an Upper East Side New Yorker in "Six Degrees of Separation", and how her performance had to change when she acted in the film version; whether she knew how divided response would be to Guare's "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun"; why she wasn't daunted about stepping into the shoes of Rosemary Harris or Katharine Hepburn for "The Lion in Winter" in 1999 -- and what about doing the show did give her pause; what it was like to do "Pal Joey", her first musical in over two decades (having previously followed Liza Minnelli into "The Rink"); and how she approached the role of Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" for a production at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland last year. Original air date - February 2, 2011.

Stockard Channing discusses her work in Jon Robin Baitz's new play "Other Desert Cities", acknowledging the ambiguity of the character for the audience and explaining whether she has defined her character's secret motivations with certainty. She also talks about her years breaking into theatre at Harvard, alongside other students like John Lithgow and Tommy Lee Jones, and her subsequent work around Boston before coming to New York and getting her increasingly bigger break in the Broadway musical "Two Gentlemen of Verona", which also began her association with John Guare; her years in Los Angeles, including a film gig she did simply because she needed money, namely "Grease"; her return to the stage in successive productions of "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" at Williamstown, Long Wharf, Roundabout and finally Broadway; being given the opportunity to choose between playing Bunny and Bananas in the Lincoln Center Theatre revival of "The House of Blue Leaves"; how it felt, as a native Upper East Side New Yorker, playing an Upper East Side New Yorker in "Six Degrees of Separation", and how her performance had to change when she acted in the film version; whether she knew how divided response would be to Guare's "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun"; why she wasn't daunted about stepping into the shoes of Rosemary Harris or Katharine Hepburn for "The Lion in Winter" in 1999 -- and what about doing the show did give her pause; what it was like to do "Pal Joey", her first musical in over two decades (having previously followed Liza Minnelli into "The Rink"); and how she approached the role of Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" for a production at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland last year. Original air date - February 2, 2011.

Stockard Channing (1985 Tony Award winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for “Joe Egg”) discusses her work in Jon Robin Baitz's new play “Other Desert Cities”, acknowledging the ambiguity of the character for the audience and explaining whether she has defined her character's secret motivations with certainty. She also talks about her years breaking into theatre at Harvard, alongside other students like John Lithgow and Tommy Lee Jones, and her subsequent work around Boston before coming to New York and getting her increasingly bigger break in the Broadway musical “Two Gentlemen of Verona”, which also began her association with John Guare; her years in Los Angeles, including a film gig she did simply because she needed money, namely “Grease”; her return to the stage in successive productions of “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” at Williamstown, Long Wharf, Roundabout and finally Broadway; being given the opportunity to choose between playing Bunny and Bananas in the Lincoln Center Theatre revival of “The House of Blue Leaves”; how it felt, as a native Upper East Side New Yorker, playing an Upper East Side New Yorker in “Six Degrees of Separation”, and how her performance had to change when she acted in the film version; whether she knew how divided response would be to Guare's “Four Baboons Adoring the Sun”; why she wasn't daunted about stepping into the shoes of Rosemary Harris or Katharine Hepburn for “The Lion in Winter” in 1999 -- and what about doing the show did give her pause; what it was like to do “Pal Joey”, her first musical in over two decades (having previously followed Liza Minnelli into “The Rink”); and how she approached the role of Lady Bracknell in “The Importance of Being Earnest” for a production at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland last year.

The producing team of the 1986 Tony-nominated play "The House of Blue Leaves" - press representative Merle Debuskey, executive producer Bernard Gersten, playwright John Guare, advertising representative James Russek, and director Jerry Zaks - discuss how they came to work on this mid-1960's domestic comedy at Lincoln Center Theatre, first in the off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, then transferring to the much larger Vivian Beaumont Theatre which presented its own challenges, eventually moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway; the economics of producing, subscriber base, and ticket prices at a not-for-profit theater; finding key designers; casting sessions, working with strong actors, and maintaining quality performances in an extended run.

Stage and film actor Anthony Rapp, upon his return to the long-running show "Rent", talks about working with the show's composer Jonathan Larson; the longevity and impact of "Rent"; getting his first professional audition for "Mr. Scrooge" at age 8; previewing "The Little Prince and The Aviator" on Broadway; meeting and later auditioning for director John Guare for "Six Degrees of Separation"; acting opposite Stockard Channing; how his mother was supportive, and how he'd like to work again with his brother, playwright/director Adam Rapp; playing the title role in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" alongside Roger Bart (Snoopy) in a short 5-month Broadway run; the long process of writing his book "Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent"; and his future plans. Original air date – August 17, 2007.

Stage and film actor Anthony Rapp, upon his return to the long-running show "Rent", talks about working with the show's composer Jonathan Larson; the longevity and impact of "Rent"; getting his first professional audition for "Mr. Scrooge" at age 8; previewing "The Little Prince and The Aviator" on Broadway; meeting and later auditioning for director John Guare for "Six Degrees of Separation"; acting opposite Stockard Channing; how his mother was supportive, and how he'd like to work again with his brother, playwright/director Adam Rapp; playing the title role in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" alongside Roger Bart (Snoopy) in a short 5-month Broadway run; the long process of writing his book "Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent"; and his future plans. Original air date – August 17, 2007.

Playwrights Jon Robin Baitz (Hedda Gabler), John Guare (Sweet Smell of Success and Tony Winner for the 1972 musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona), Peter Parnell (Q.E.D.), and directors Gene Saks (Tony Award winner for Best Direction for I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues), Tony winning-director Daniel Sullivan (2001 for Best Direction of a Play for Proof), and Mary Zimmerman (Tony Award for Metamorphoses) discuss their approaches to writing, directing, and adaptations; the collaboration process with directors, writers, producers, sets, and actors; reactions to a production's first preview; and the source of ideas for playwrights.

Playwrights Jon Robin Baitz ("Hedda Gabbler"), John Guare ("Sweet Smell of Success"), Peter Parnell ("Q.E.D."), and directors Gene Saks ("Mr. Goldwyn"), Daniel Sullivan ("Proof"), and Mary Zimmerman ("Metamorphoses") discuss their approaches to writing, directing, and adaptations; the collaboration process with directors, writers, producers, sets, and actors; reactions to a production's first preview; and the source of ideas for playwrights.

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