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Multidisciplinary Arts Theater
  • Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore discusses comedy and their show "Good Evening"

    Jun. 5, 1975

    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore talk about acting, comedy and their show "Good Evening," a two man sketch comedy show. .

  • Micheál Mac Liammóir discusses his show "The Importance of Being Oscar"; part 2

    Nov. 17, 1961

    Micheál Mac Liammóir, actor and playwright, discusses his upcoming performance based on the writings of Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde.

  • Interviewing impresario Jim Haynes while Studs in England ; part 2

    1968
  • Jim Haynes

    Interviewing impresario Jim Haynes while Studs in England ; part 1

    1968
  • Interviewing Abena Joan Brown

    Feb. 14, 1989

    Abena Joan Brown is President of ETA Creative Arts Foundation, a Chicago-based African American cultural performing arts institution

  • Elsa Gress discusses her work, current events, cultural movements

    Oct. 1, 1968

    Danish essayist and novelist Elsa Gress discusses her work, current events, and cultural movements. Her book "My Many Homes" ("Mine mange hjem") is also mentioned. She talks about American and Demark, theater, and the sexual revolution.

  • Eartha Kitt

    Eartha Kitt discusses her music career ; part 2

    Jul. 10, 1962

    Studs Terkel continues to interview actress and singer Eartha Kitt. Part 2 of the interview begins with the song "Üsküdara", and ends with "Mountain High, Valley Low", both sung by Kitt. Kitt discusses the following; her career; her desire to entertain; her autobiography, "Thursday's Child"; her mothers death; the art of interacting with the audience; the femme fatale; her time with the Katherine Dunham Dancers; and her portrayl of Helen of Troy.

  • Discussing Gilbert and Sullivan with Jane Stedman ; part 2

    Jan. 25, 1965

    Jane Stedman discusses the lives of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan and the works they created jointly as Gilbert and Sullivan with emphasis on their comic opera "Utopia, Limited."

  • Arnold Wesker

    Arnold Wesker, english writer and playwright discusses his life and work.

    1962

    Arnold Wesker, English playwright and writer in several genres discusses scenes from the play "Roots". Mr Wesker further discusses his plays and the current cast traveling around England performing several of his plays. The interview tape ends and Studs recalls the remainder of the interview alone as a postscript.

  • Anna Deavere Smith

    Anna Deavere Smith discusses her career

    May. 4, 1995

    Anna Deavere Smith discusses and demonstrates her unique character portrayals from her works "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992."

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