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Discussing "Six Characters in Search of an Author," by Luigi Pirandello with director Robert Brustein.
Interviewing author, theater critic and director Robert Brustein.
Discussing and reading "The American buffalo" and "The woods" with David Mamet.
Discussing Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and the Beckett Project with director Alan Schneider.
As previously presented in Studs Terkel's weekly Almanac program, Abe Burrows, talks about how he got into writing. After the Depression, Burrows explained he had no true goal in mind other than that of simply surviving. Typing out material on a typewriter was when Burrows realized he was good at both writing and comedy.
Herbert Blau’s KRAKEN experimental group performed, “The Donner Party, Its Crossing,” at the at the Body Politic Theatre. Blau shares his thoughts on the theatre and his approach to theatre. Blau believed there was always a story to be told, and that an audience would only understand the true story of people’s hardships by telling and re-telling a story over and over again. The program also includes an excerpt of a George Keithly interview at 5:40 to 7:40.
Director Frank Galati explains that the play "She Always Said, Pablo," was about Gertrude Stein's relationship with Pablo Picasso. Referring to the play itself, Galati also said that he tried to marry their narrative writings with some operatic song.