On this week's podcast, Anne Nicholson Weber is joined by the Artistic Director at Court Theatre, Charlie Newell, and the Court Theatre's resident dramaturg, Drew Dir. They discuss the Court's current production of The Illusion, a free adaptation by Tony Kushner of Pierre Corneille's French Baroque masterpiece, and describe an unusual collaboration with professors and students at the University of Chicago to investigate the original Corneille text, Corneille's world and Kushner's adaptation.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with playwright and director Emilie Beck and her father Bernard Beck who is appearing in her one-man show Number Of People playing at the Piven Theatre in Evanston.
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Our guests on this week's interview podcast are Kirsten Fitzgerald, Mierka Girten and Natalie West -- three of the cast members from Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh, which is currently playing at A Red Orchid Theatre. They talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about comic acting, playing drunk and the actor's dual relationship with the other actors and with the audience.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with actress Emily Skinner who is one of the stars of Billy Elliot The Musical at the Ford Oriental Theatre. She talks about her role in the hit musical as well as her acting career.
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On this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Benno Nelson talks about theatre and accounting with Martin Kamensky from Rockstar CPA and Andrew Hobgood from The New Colony.
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This week's on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast features actress Renee Matthews who talks with Tom Williams about her current role in Over The Tavern at Noble Fool as well as her great acting career.
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This week's podcast is something a little different. Last month, the League of Chicago Theatre's hosted an event at Chicago Dramatists centered on a new book called Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play, which was recently published by Theatre Devleopment Fund. Outrageous Fortune is a study of the lives of America playwrights, the relationship between playwrights and non-profit producers, and the process by which new plays get produced. The book has caused something of a stir in theatrical circles.

Theatre in Chicago was at Chicago Dramatists that day, and we recorded the opening presentation by Victoria Bailey, Executive Director of Theatre Development Fund, and Todd London, one of the book's authors, which summarizes the findings of the book. This week's podcast is the recording of that presentaiton.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with actor Dale Benson who is currently starring in Noises Off at the Theatre at the Center. He talks about the role as well as his acting career.
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This week's interview podcast features the cast of The Brothers Size, which is the middle play in Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays, currently playing at Steppenwolf Theatre. Phillip James Brannon, K. Todd Freeman and Glenn Davis talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about their approach to McCraney's poetic voice, his mythic influences and the unusual three-man triangle at the heart of the play.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Mary Beth Fisher who is currently starring in The Year of Magical Thinking at the Court Theater. She talks about the one-person show as well as how she met with author Joan Didion to prespare for the role.
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The subject of this week's interview podcast is Noel Coward.  Jim Corti, director of Writers Theatre's Oh Coward, and Gary Griffin, director of Private Lives at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, join Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about Coward's aesthetic and how each of them chose to re-examine Coward's work with today's audiences in mind.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Sara Sheperd who is currently starring in Funny Girl as Fanny Brice at the Drury Lane- Oakbrook. She talks about the role as well as her acting career.
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The three winners of the 24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival at Pegasus Players are college freshmen Gabriella Bonamici, Giziang Lee, and Kat Blackburn. Gabi, Gigi and Kat are joined by festival director Ilesa Duncan and one of the three playwright mentors, Andrew Hinderaker, to talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about the selection, mentoring and production processes that culminate this month with a professional production of the three winning scripts.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with actor Larry Yando about his career and his reoccurring role as Scrooge at the Goodman Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol.
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On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Hershey Felder, the pianist, actor, playwright and producer of shows such as George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin and Beethoven, As I Knew Him. He talks with Tom about his these three very successful one-man shows.
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