Posted by admin on May 27, 2010 under Podcast Notes | 
Enjoy your long weekend and don’t forget to load up some new podcasts to listen to on your trip!
In this episode:
Taren Sterry has been performing her one woman show, 180 DAYS, as a tool to help raise awareness and volunteers for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Here she tells us how that all came to be!- In the wake of air travel’s recent headaches, Alex Lyras‘ show, THE COMMON AIR, certainly feels timely. Alex and director Robert McCaskill stop by to discuss the show.
- Actors Alysia Reiner and Jack Gwaltney tell us about MODOTTI, and discuss the period and history that inspired the show.
- Clubbed Thumb launches it’s three-show summer “festival” with DOT, and Playwright Kate E. Ryan and composer Mike Iveson tell us about the show and the producing organization.
- More from Planet Connections Festivity, this time, with the “sequel” to a Midsummer Night’s Dream, THE THYME OF THE SEASON, and playwright Duncan Pflaster and co-conceiver/actor Clara Barton Green tell us about it.
- UNCLE SHELBY’S WUNDERPANTRY OF POSSIBILITIES will also grace the stages at Planet Connections Festivity, and writers Dan Moyer, Ben Forster and Producer Nathaniel Kent discuss their hunt for a vanished theme park.
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Posted by admin on May 12, 2010 under News |
The Planet Connections Festivity is back this year with more plays, more locations, and more opportunities to save the planet with sustainable theatre! The festival runs from June 3-June 29th. Find out all about it at their website: www.planetconnectionsfestivity.com and hear about some of the shows in our dedicated episode!
In this episode:
- Festivity organizers, Glory Bowen and Carly Robbins talk about this year’s events.
- Actors Fred Rueck and Margie Ferris discuss FOX TALES
- Playwright Carol Carpenter and Director Dianna Martin discuss MTWorks production of GOOD LONELY PEOPLE
Writer/Producer Jason Grossman discusses LOVE ME- Producer/Co-Writer Mehr Mansouri talkes about the musical, GIVE TIL IT HURTS
- Director Melissa Moschitto and actor Karim Muasher discusses The Anthropoligist production of ANOTHER PLACE
- Director Nicole Potter discusses SUNRISE/SUNSET OR BREAKFAST WITH JULIA
- Newground Theater Collective founding members Rosebud Parker and Mariel Matero discuss their production, CLANDESTINE
- Co-Producers Kim M. Jones and Andrew Rothkin (also writer/director) discuss the play, DANNY
- Emma Koenig (Playwright/Director/Actor/Producer) and Peter Rothbreed (Actor) discuaa I DON”T WANT TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS
Playwright John Kearns discusses his play, IN THE WILDERNESS- Director/Designer Oscar A. Mendoza and actress Barbara Mundy discuss MANHATTAN PROJECT
- Calla Videt (Director/Writer) and Kevin Davies (Producer/Writer) discuss Wind-Up Lab’s THE UNTITLED PROJECT
- Playwright Sergei Burbank discusses Conflict Of Interest Theater Company’s WAR CRIMES.
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Posted by admin on May 5, 2010 under News |
Jude Law: Best Actor in a Play - HAMLET
It’s time again! This was my third time attending the Meet the Tony Nominees Press Reception, which I like to loving call, the Tony Press Clusterf&%k. We’ve got FOURTEEN great interviews for you this week in a tight Hour and Forty minutes!
In this episode:
- Dick Scanlan – Nominated for Best Book of a Musical for EVERYDAY RAPTURE
- John Logan - Playwright of Best Play nominee, RED
- Rob Ashford – 5 time Tony Nominee, this year Best Choreography for PROMISES, PROMISES
- Sue Frost and Randy Adams of Junkyard Dog Productions nominated for Best Musical; MEMPHIS
- Donald Margulies – Playwright of Best Play nominee, TIME STANDS STILL
- Joe D. Pietro (Best Book and Best Score) & David Bryon (Best Score) for MEMPHIS
- Karina Plantadit up for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for COME FLY AWAY
- Stephen Kunken – Featured Actor in a Play for ENRON
- Chad Kimball – Leading Actor in a Musical – MEMPHIS
- Sherie Rene Scott - Leading Actress in a Musical and Best Original Book for EVERYDAY RAPTURE
- Montego Glover – Leading Actress in a Musical for MEMPHIS
- Jude Law – Best Actor in a Play for HAMLET
- Valarie Harper – Best Actress in a Play for LOOPED
- Maria Dizzia – Best Featured Actress in a Play for IN THE NEXT ROOM (THE VIBRATOR PLAY)
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Tags: 2010 Tony Awards, Bon Jovi, Chad Kimball, Come Fly Away, David Bryon, Dick Scanlan, Donald Margulis, Enron, Everyday Rapture, Hamlet, In the Next Room, Joe D. Dietro, John Logan, Jude Law, Karine Plantadit, Looped, Maria Dizzia, Memphis, Montego Glover, Promises Promises, Red, Rob Ashford, Sherie Rene Scott, Stephen Kunken, The Vibrator Play, Time Stands Still, Valarie Harper
