This week, our interview podcast focuses on sound design. Designers Nick Keenan, Ray Nardelli and Joshua Horvath join host Anne Nicholson Weber to discuss the sound design of two current productions (The Piano Lesson at Court Theatre and Rock 'n Roll at Goodman Theatre), and broader issues as the meshing of amplified and non-amplified sound, spatial design, where the sounds come from, and differences between the theatrical cultures of Chicago and New York.
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This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we visit with BJ Jones, the Artistic Director of the Northlight Theatre. He talks about their current show The Lieutenant Of Inishmore as well as their upcoming season.
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This week's podcast focuses on TimeLine Theatre's production of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. First, dialect coach Eva Beneman and actor Will Allan talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about dialect -- how to teach it and why it matters. Then director Nick Bowling and actor Donald Brearley join the discussion to talk about the concept of "ensemble".
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This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have an interview with internationally acclaimed playwright Ken Ludwig. He talks about his career and very successful shows including Crazy For You and Lend Me A Tenor.
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On this week's podcast, Kris Vire joins Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about his work as a theatre writer for Time Out Chicago and his new appointment as Theatre Editor for the magazine.
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This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we interview Kirsten Fitzgerald, the Artistic Director of A Red Orchid Theatre and one of the stars of their current show Pumpgirl. She talks about her theatre as well as their current hit show.
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This week's interview podcast focuses Steppenwolf Theatre's production of The Tempest. Actors Frank Galati (Prospero), Jon Michael Hill (Ariel) and K. Todd Freeman (Caliban) discuss how Steppenwolf's culture and style affected their take on Shakespeare, their use of the Viewpoints technique, their work on verse-speaking, and the reverberations of race in the production.
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This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have an interview with Regina Taylor, the author of Magnolia currently playing at the Goodman Theatre. She talks about the show as well as her very successful acting career.
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Our guest on this week's Talk Theatre Podcast is actor Kevin Cox, who talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about the creation of his critically-acclaimed version of the Frankenstein monster for Bohemian Theatre Ensemble's production of Playing With Fire, by Barbara Field. Cox discusses his collaboration with Adam Kander (who plays a younger version of the same character), and the unique physical and vocal demands of this challenging role.
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This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we interview the Artistic Director of the Porchlight Music Theatre, Walter Stearns. He talks about their current show Pacific Overtures as well as their upcoming shows.
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Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls and The Neo-Futurists Founding Director Greg Allen join us this week to discuss the final production in Goodman's Eugene O'Neill Festival, Allen's deconstructed version of Strange Interlude. They talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about how different festival directors faced the challenges posed by O'Neill in the 21st century, the resilience of the classics and the need to reinvent them, the energy created when the audience is divided about a production, and the rewards of the festival format.
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This week we revisit with our first guest ever on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast, Dorothy Milne, the Artistic Director of the Lifeline Theatre. She talks about her theatre's current show as well as the current season and thoughts about the Chicago theatre scene.
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This week's Talk Theatre podcast features Christina Calvit and Marilyn Campbell, who talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about the hows and whys of adapting novels for the stage: how to choose the aspects of the novel that will be staged, how to reduce the text to its essentials, how to stage narration, and, most importantly, why do it in the first place. Christina Calvit's adaptation of Mariette in Ecstacy recently opened at Lifeline Theatre, and Marilyn Campbell's adaptation of Crime and Punishment, which was developed at Writers' Theatre, is now being produced around the world.
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On this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have an interview with producer Tony D'Angelo who talks about his upcoming show The Quiet Man Tales which will play at the Chicago Theatre.
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This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago podcast features playwright Brett Neveu and Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam in conversation with Anne Nicholson Weber. They discuss the challenges of commissioning and developing new plays, the chemistry between playwright, director and company, and Neveu's play, Old Glory, which was commissioned through the Literary Development Initiative at Writers Theatre, and premiered there last Thursday.
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