Podcast appearances and mentions of rebecca taichman

"Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Careyand special guestDavid Dorfman.In this episode of"Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey interviewsDavid Dorfman, the Artistic Director of the David Dorfman Dance Company. They discuss David's journey into dance, his influences, and the pivotal moments that shaped his career. David shares insights into his teaching philosophy, the importance of improvisation, and the collaborative nature of dance. He emphasizes the significance of presence in performance and the joy of mentorship in his role as a professor at Connecticut College. In this engaging conversation, David Dorfman shares his insights on the art of partner dancing, the themes of surrender and connection in his work, and the intersection of dance and war. He discusses the transformative power of dance, the importance of legacy, and how revisiting old works can be a journey through time. Dorfman emphasizes the role of dance in healing and connection, advocating for a world where everyone dances as a path to peace.Upcoming performance: Downtown to Uptown, Past to Forward.David Dorfman is the Artistic Director and Founder of David Dorfman Dance (1987), has been Professor of Dance at Connecticut College since 2004. Dorfman received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 to continue his research and choreography in the topics of power and powerlessness, including activism, dissidence, and underground movements. DD has been honored with four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, an American Choreographer's Award, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard, and a New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award.David was a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Dance. His work has been commissioned widely in the U.S. and in Europe, by Dancing Wheels (Cleveland), AXIS Dance Company (Oakland), and Bedlam Dance Company (London). His forays into theater include choreography for the Tony Award-winning play,Indecent, by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, for which DD received a Lucille Lortel Award and Chita Rivera Nomination for best choreography for the play's Off-Broadway run. David traveled to London in March 2020 to set choreography forIndecent's UK premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In addition, David has contributed his choreography for the upcomingWhisper House, a new musical by Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow, Ibsen'sAn Enemy of the People at Yale Rep;Our Town, a co-production of Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse;Assassins at Yale Rep; and the original musicalGreen Violin at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, for which he won a 2003 Barrymore Award for best choreography. Dorfman tours an evening of solos and duets,Live Sax Acts, with dear friend and collaborator Dan Froot, most recently in New York City and at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe.  As a performer, he toured internationally with Kei Takei's Moving Earth and Susan Marshall & Co.DD hails from Chicago and holds a BS in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis (1977). He appeared on several episodes of A Chance to Dance, a reality show on OvationTV starring Dorfman's pals, the BalletBoyz .DD continually thanks Martha Myers and the late Daniel Nagrin, for being his dance mom and dad; his late parents, Oscar and Jeanette, for inspiring him to dance to heal and instilling the importance of a good joke; and his in-house “family project”, Lisa and Samson, for sharing with him the practice of unconditional love.Info About Upcoming Performanceshttps://www.daviddorfmandance.org/calendar“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Careywherever you listen to your podcasts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://dancetalkwithjoannecarey.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Joanne on Instagram @westfieldschoolofdance Tune in. Follow. Like us. And Share. Please leave a review! “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey"Where the Dance World Connects, the Conversations Inspire, and Where We Are Keeping Them Real."

Recorded on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 In this episode of TA(L)KING DIRECTION, Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks and Associate Artistic Director Nilan speak with Tony Award-winning director, Rebecca Taichman. Known as a director who is committed to the development of the projects she works on, they discuss her role as director and co-creator of Indecent, her dedication and determination to bringing Sing Street to Broadway, as well as her thoughts on gender parity in the theater, considering she has an exclusive role as one of only 10 women directors to have received a Tony Award for direction. Editing Services: Catalin Media, @catalinmedia

Rebecca Taichman won the Tony Award for best director for her production of Paula Vogel's hit play Indecent, charting the controversy surrounding Yiddish playwright Sholem Asch's 1906 drama God of Vengeance, a story of exploitation set in a brothel that also celebrates the passionate love between two women. It caused a furore when the English translation opened on Broadway in 1923 and the company were tried for obscenity. Happily, Indecent became one of the hottest tickets in theatre and Rebecca has been in London directing the UK premiere, now selling out at the Menier Chocolate Factory, where it opened to rave reviews. Before she returned to New York, Taichman spoke to JR's Judi Herman about her fruitful, five-year collaboration with Vogel and their shared passion for telling “the true story of a little Jewish play”.Indecent runs until Saturday 27 November. 8pm (Tue-Sat), 3.30pm (Sat & Sun only). £37.50-£47.50. Menier Chocolate Factory, SE1 1RU. menierchocolatefactory.com

Episode 5 dropped on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 with our fifth guest: Rebecca Taichman, theatre director and the 2017 winner of the Tony Award for Best Direction for her work on Indecent by Paula Vogel. Tune in as Rebecca and Danielle discuss Jewish identity, past and future productions of Indecent, and how the theatre industry needs to move forward. Theatre Schmooze, an all-new, monthly podcast from Alliance for Jewish Theatre where we chat with Jewish theatre makers from around the world about their art, Judaism, and vision for theater's future. Hosted by Danielle Levsky (AJT Board Member, writer, clown, performer, producer, and theatre journalist), Theatre Schmooze will feature one-on-one conversations with artists that will illuminate the heart, soul, and diversity of contemporary Jewish theatre. Theatre Schmooze is an Alliance for Jewish Theatre program, produced by Jeremy Aluma, Danny Debner, Lawrence Goodman, and Danielle Levsky, with assistance from Ariel Martz-Oberlander and Mindy Leanse. Our theme music is by Ilya Levinson and Alex Koffman, and our logo was created by Michelle Shapiro.

Welcome back to the 33rd episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. The theatres may be closed, but art finds a way to survive! For the time being on this podcast we are rereleasing our past reviews, interviews, roundtables, and duet reviews in remastered audio only versions so you can take your CoH content on the go! For our 33rd episode we continue to branch out our review series beyond the Stratford Festival and onto other productions. In this episode we discussed the 2017 Broadway production of Indecent, written by Paula Vogel, co-created and directed by Rebecca Taichman. Cup of Hemlock Theatre is a Toronto-based performing arts collective dedicated to staging works that examine the moral quandaries of the human experience. With an inquisitive compass, we aim to provide audiences the space to retrace their personal stories and navigate their individual ideologies. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: cohtheatre Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Max Ackerman – Instagram: mackerman12 // dandeliontheatreto Aisling Murphy – Instagram: aly_murph // Website: aislingmurphy.ca Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!] --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

Before the pandemic, I sat down with Daniel Jenkins in his apartment to talk about growing up as a self-proclaimed ‘nerd’, a day in the life as an apprentice at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, transitioning to New York and his starring role as Huckleberry Finn in the original Broadway company of BIG RIVER as well as his return to the musical almost twenty years later. We discuss stories from the auditions and processes for BIG, John Doyle’s production of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, and STAGE KISS including dancing with Rebecca Taichman, frequent collaborations with Bartlett Sher, as well as our mutual appreciation and admiration for the late Michael Friedman.

2017 Tony Award winner for Best Director of a Play, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Indecent; Has directed on and Off-Broadway, new plays and classics, musicals and opera; Director of NYTW's production of Sing Street.

Rebecca Taichman is a theatre director. In 2017 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Indecent. She is an affiliated artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C, where she has directed Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (2008), The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline (2011). She has directed several Shakespeare plays at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Other plays she has directed include Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Scene, Milk Like Sugar, The Oldest Boy, Familiar, and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage. Through years of determination, steadfastness, ego-checking, and intense collaboration, she took her wisp of an idea . . . and forged it into a Broadway play called Indecent. And then the universe thanked her with a Tony. Tune in to hear what kept her going through those years, as well as: How being objective about her performing and writing is one of the reasons she’s a success. What question she asks herself about a play before she signs on to direct it. Straddling the line between wanting to direct great plays while trying to make a living. What it’s like on her first day of rehearsal. The difference between being a woman director yesterday . . . and today.  Has it changed? Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We head out of the studio this week to the opening night party of School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at MCC Theater. We talk with cast members MaameYaa Boafo, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Nabiiyah Be, Zainab Jah, Tony-winning director Rebecca Taichman, and playwright Jocelyn Bioh about working with an all-black female cast, the universal reach of discrimination, and fragmenting the idea of a monolithic black experience.

In 24 Years by Leslie Ayvazian (Nine Armenians), a couple celebrates their 24th anniversary. Champagne in hand, and huge cast on leg (from an overly enthusiastic soccer mishap), this immobilized husband still manages to stay one step ahead of his exasperated wife and to declare his vows again. Leslie's play features Jessica Hecht (catch her this summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House directed by PoA vet Rebecca Taichman! July 19-29) and Dominic Fumusa (Edie Falco's ex on "Nurse Jackie"). 24 Years is directed by novelist/playwright/filmmaker/director Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Baby Anger, About a Boy, Dan in Real Life). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation moderated by our Producing Artistic Director, Claudia Catania. And happy anniversaries! 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.

Discussion of INDECENT by Paula Vogel. As directed by Rebecca Taichman and as presented at New York's Vineyard Theatre in 2016. Recorded on May 31, 2016. Music courtesy of Scott Holmes: facebook.com/scottholmesmusic

In Episode 2, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE) and acclaimed director Rebecca Taichman (FAMILIAR), co-creators of INDECENT, join us for a conversation on the luxury of having three productions to develop a play, the benefits that living well can bring to the creative process, and how they brought the story of the Yiddish play GOD OF VENGEANCE to the stage with INDECENT. Eric Pargac hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Ruhl's new play Stage Kiss follows the antics of two actors who renew an old romance when they appear together in an antique drama from the 1930s. Jessica Hecht and Dominic Fumusa star in the production, which is directed by Rebecca Taichman for Playwrights Horizons. New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood tells us the consequences of what happens when actors fall back in love — and life begins to imitate art.

This conversation takes a close look at The Winter’s Tale, delving into production history, Rebecca Taichman’s directing style and actor doubling in Shakespeare.

DARK SISTERS director Rebecca Taichman, conductor Neal Goren and composer Nico Muhly discuss the challenges of staging a contemporary opera, how the score guides the staging process, creating characters in opera, and the use of hymns in the music.

DARK SISTERS director Rebecca Taichman, conductor Neal Goren, and composer Nico Muhly discuss the challenges of directing opera, the benefits of "tablework" and the workshop process in opera, the role of physical movement in DARK SISTERS, and the relationship between vocal writing and characterization in the opera.

A panel of directors - Stafford Arima, Anne Kauffman, Rebecca Taichman and Henry Wishcamper - discusses the dynamic between themselves and the playwrights with whom they work; their first paying job as a director; the value of assistant directing; what process means to each of them; how they approach auditions and if they would like to have a job as an Artistic Director.