On this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have an interview with Janet Ulrich Brooks who is starring in Not Enough Air which is playing at the TimeLine Theatre.
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This week's podcast focuses on a production of Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith, which is currently playing at the 16th Street Theatre in Berwyn. Anne Nicholson Weber interviews Ann Filmer, who directed the show, and cast members Cheri Lynne and Caroline Rau about Anna Deavere Smith's work, reinventing the monologue as a four-person show, inside-out vs outside-in acting and their anxieties about transgressing racial identities.
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On this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have an interview with actor Brian Dennehy who is starring in Desire Under The Elms which is playing at the Goodman Theatre.
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Scenic designers Brian Sidney Bembridge, Jack Magaw and Todd Rosenthal join Anne Nicholson Weber on this week's Talk Theatre In Chicago's podcast to talk about the language of scenic design, their design process, and their collaboration with the director and other members of the design team.
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This week we have a double interview with one of the stars of Miss Saigon, Joseph Anthony Foronda, as well as the Director Rachel Rockwell.
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This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago podcast features Criss Henderson, Executive Director at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about Chicago Shakespeare's World's Stage Series -- how shows from around the world are chosen for the series, the logistical and artistic challenges of bringing them to Chicago, and the importance of exposing Chicago artists and audiences to theatre from around the world.
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An interview with Max McLean, one of the adapters and the star of the hit show The Screwtape Letters which is playing at the Mercury Theatre. He talks about the show as well his career.
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This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago interview podcast features Chicago lyricist and composer, Julie Shannon, who created the perennial favorite, The Christmas Schooner, with Chicago actor and book writer John Reeger. Shannon talks about her very happy collaboration with Reeger, the continuing success of the show around the country and beyond, the evolution of her career, and how she sets about to write a song.
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An interview with Rudy Hogenmiller the Artisitc Director of Light Opera Works. He talks about their upcoming show The Music Man as well as their upcoming season.
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This week on the Talk Theatre in Chicago interview podcast, Anne Nicholson Weber interviews actors Mary Ann Thebus and Lia Mortensen about their work in Next Theatre's production of Lisa Kron's Well -- an autobiographical performance piece that examines illness, mothers and daughters, and the artistic process.
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An interview with Damian Arnold, the prodcuer of the hit show Don't Dress For Dinner which is currently playing at the Royal George Theatre.
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This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago interview podcast focuses on Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends -- a new musical playing at No Exit Café. Anne Nicholson Weber first interviews the book writer, lyricist and composer -- Joanne Koch, Owen Kalt and Ilya Levinson -- about creating the show, and then interviews the show's star, Bethany Thomas, about her performance as Belle Barth.
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An interview with Nathaniel Swift, the Artisitc Director of Eclipse Theatre Company. He talks about their current show The Autumn Garden as well as their upcoming season.
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This week's podcast interview features the artistic directors of three Chicago-area theatres: PJ Paparelli of American Theatre Company; David Catlin of Lookingglass Theatre; and Mark Weston of Apple Tree Theatre. They discuss how they put together a season, who contributes to programming decisions, and the criteria and goals that inform the choice of what plays to produce.
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An interview with actor Brian McCaskill who is one of the stars of Million Dollar Quartet which is now playing at the Apollo Theater. He talks about the show as well as his acting career.
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