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Actors Producers and Directors Theater
  • Theater for the Deaf

    Several members of the cast of The Theater for the Deaf discuss their production ; Couples with a brief interview with John Cage and "Music for Carillon" is played.

    Apr. 23, 1968

    Rilla Bergman, Lou Fant, and Bill Reese converse with Studs about The National Theater for the Deaf and the production they are presenting. Two of the actors Ms. Bergman and Mr. Reese discuss what it took to learn, as hearing people, the best ways to express themselves with sign language. They all talk about how much more expressive the actors in the Deaf Theater have to be to convey the message of the piece they are presenting.

  • Interviewing the cast of a production of Dylan Thomas' play, "Under Milk Wood"

    Mar. 25, 1992

    Running at Cafe Voltaire in Chicago, the show is produced by actor-directors Michael Barto and Peter Cieply.

  • Interview with Roscoe Lee Browne and Lloyd Richards

    Sep. 21, 1992

    Interviewing actor Roscoe Lee Browne and actor and theater director Lloyd Richards.

  • Terkel discusses the opera and theater.

    Sep. 28, 1989

    Promoting a production of "The Zoo: A Musical Folly," with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Chicago's Executive Producer Gretchen Potts and Artistic Director Carl Forsberg.

  • Roscoe Lee Browne, Derek Walcott and Gregory Mosher discuss the play "Pantomime"

    Principal actor Roscoe Lee Browne, playwright Derek Walcott, and director Gregory Mosher discuss the play "Pantomime" and it's major themes of racial role reversal, Robinson Crusoe influences, and colonialism.

  • Paul Robeson

    Interview with Avery Brooks

    Feb. 7, 1991

    Discussing Paul Robeson with actor, teacher, and musician Avery Brooks.

  • Patrick Henry, Tricia Alexander in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 21, 1986

    Discussing PROJECT! with Free Street Theater founder Pat Henry and lyricist Tricia Alexander. Produced by the Free Street Theater, PROJECT! is a series of inner-city vignettes in song and dance about life in an inner-city housing project. All of the actor

  • Interview with Del Close and Bob Falls

    Apr. 2, 1985

    Discussing William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," with actor Del Close and director Bob Falls.

  • Interviewing actor, director and author Vincent Dowling

    Mar. 1, 1990

    Interviewing actor, director and author Vincent Dowling.

  • Frank Galati in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 5, 1987

    Interviewing cast members of "She Always Said, Pablo," with director Frank Galati.

  • Discussing the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire," with playwright, director, actress, and founder of the Black Ensemble Theater, Jackie Taylor

    Mar. 23, 1987
  • Interviewing with and listening to a performance of "Playsong" by Jackie Taylor; playwright, actress, and Artistic Director of the Black Ensemble Theater

    Aug. 28, 1985
  • Discussing the Black Ensemble Theater's production of the Tennessee Williams play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," with actress Jackie Taylor who portrays Blanche DuBois in the production

    May. 3, 1995

    Taylor is also a playwright, director, and the founder of the Black Ensemble Theater.

  • Interviewing playwright, director, actress, and founder of the Black Ensemble Theater, Jackie Taylor

    Apr. 4, 1990
  • Discussing the Black Ensemble Theater's production of the play, "Me and Miss D.," with playwright Jackie Taylor and former dancer Tommy Gomez

    May. 14, 1996

    Me and Miss D., is the musical biography of Gomez and dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham.

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