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Actors Authors, Writers Theater
  • Ida Kaminska

    Interview with Ida Kaminska

    Apr. 13, 1966

    Actor Ida Kaminska discusses her role in the film "The Shop on Main Street."

  • 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."

  • Peggy Nelson, Arnaud d'Usseau, and Olivier Bernier

    1962

    Studs speaks to actress Peggy Nelson, playwright Arnaud d'Usseau, and student Olivier Bernier while he is in France. [Part 2 includes Yves Montand.]

  • Interviewing director Nick Rudall and three members of the cast of Court Theatre's production of George Bernard Shaw's play, "Candida"

    Sep. 20, 1990
  • Interview with Jared Brown

    Aug. 25, 1989

    Discussing "Zero Mostel: A Biography" (published by Atheneum) with the author Jared Brown.

  • 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.

  • Stanley Elkin and Frank Galati discuss "The Dick Gibson Show"

    Nov. 9, 1979

    Presenting "The Dick Gibson show" with Frank Galati, et. al.

  • Interview with Claudia Allen, Brian Rabinowitz, and Meg Thalken

    Jul. 17, 1989

    Interviewing and reading the play "They Even Got the Rienzi," with playwright Claudia Allen and actors Brian Rabinowitz and Meg Thalken. "They Even Got the Rienzi," is included in the work "Short Stuff: ten to twenty minute plays for mature actors."

  • Discussing a production of the play, Never Come Morning, with playwright Paul Peditto and cast members Jennifer Markowitz, Andy Hawks and Lara Phillips

    Sep. 19, 1994

    Adapted by Peditto, the play, Never Come Morning, is based on the Nelson Algren novel of the same title.

  • Frank Galati in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 5, 1987

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

  • Lillian Hellman in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jul. 2, 1984

    Tribute to Lillian Hellman

  • Interview with Joe Mantegna and Richard Fiere

    Sep. 22, 1989

    Discussing the play "Bleacher Bums: A Nine-Inning Comedy" with Richard Fiere and creator and actor Joe Mantegna.

  • 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.

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