Zuber, Redgrave, Wilson Set for Downstage Center
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 28, 2007
The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio have announced upcoming shows to air on XM's On Broadway Channel 28 and on ATW Website as part of the "Downstage Center" series.
The programs are as follows:
Friday, June 29 at 6 PM
Catherine Zuber
Repeat Dates: Saturday, June 30 at noon, Sunday, July 1 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, July 4 at midnight. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org beginning Monday afternoon, July 2.
Three-time Tony Award-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber (The Light in the Piazza, Seascape, Awake and Sing!, Doubt) talks about the process of costume design and the nature of the collaboration between designers and a director; explains how she chooses her projects -- and how many she takes on each year; recounts the challenge of creating 600 costumes for the Lincoln Center Theatre production of The Coast of Utopia; describes the development of the costumes for the multiple incarnations (and changing cast members) of The Light in the Piazza; shares how she made the career transition from photographer to designer; and dispenses some tips to aspiring designers about how to develop their skills.
Friday, July 6 at 6PM
Vanessa Redgrave
Repeat Dates: Saturday, July 7 at noon, Sunday, July 8 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, June 11 at midnight. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org beginning Monday afternoon, July 9.
Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave (Long Day's Journey Into Night, Orpheus Descending, The Lady from the Sea) explains why, despite the character name in the program, she's not specifically playing "Joan Didion" in Broadway's The Year of Magical Thinking; explores the transformation of Wallace Shawn's The Fever from stage monologue to multi-character film; considers the experience of working with the many members of her acclaimed multi-generational family of actors and directors; discusses why she has tackled Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, as both actor and director in five different productions; declares that theatre should really performed outdoors in the blazing sun; and recalls childhood memories of her earliest experiences in the theatre -- as well as idyllic moments in her youth gathered with her parents and siblings around a piano singing Broadway show tunes.
Friday, July 13 at 6PM
Michael Wilson
Repeat Dates: Saturday, July 14 at noon, Sunday, July 15 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, July 18 at midnight. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org beginning Monday afternoon, July 16.
"Director Michael Wilson (Enchanted April, The Carpetbagger's Children, What Didn't Happen, Necessary Targets) discusses his work on the first Broadway revival of John Van Druten's Old Acquaintance at the Roundabout and why the play is so different than the Bette Davis film; describes his theatrical education while working as house manager and company manager at Cambridge's American Repertory Theatre; recalls his hiring as artistic director of the Hartford Stage Company after many years of seeing the company's productions from the audience; explains his affinity for the work of Tennessee Williams and the ongoing Williams marathon in Hartford; and describes his ongoing professional relationships with actresses Annalee Jeffries and Elizabeth Ashley and the playwright Horton Foote."
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Photo of Vanessa Redgrave by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
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