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  • Discussing the book "In Person: The Great Entertainers" with author, theater critic and biographer Martin Gottfried

    Dec. 2, 1985
  • Discussing the book "Bravi: Lyric Opera of Chicago" with author and photographer Victor Skrebneski

    Apr. 14, 1994
  • Discussing the book "Bernard Shaw: 'The Search of Love', 'The Pursuit of Power' and 'The Lure of Fantasy'" with biographer Michael Holroyd

    1980

    Program also includes an excerpt of a reading from Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell".

  • Auditorium Theater

    Discussing the Auditorium Theater with friends ; part 1

    Jun. 1, 1967

    Discussing the Auditorium Theater with friends.

  • Discussing the "Common man: a man for all seasons" by Robert Bolt and interviewing actor George Rose ; part 1

    1963
  • Discussing Steppenwolf Theatre's production of Chekhov's play, "Three Sisters," with the play's translator, playwright Lanford Wilson, and director Austin Pendleton

    Dec. 4, 1984
  • Discussing Steppenwolf Theater's production of the A. R. Gurney play, "Love Letters," with the production's lead actors, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson

    Jun. 13, 1990
  • Discussing Shakespeare and Tom Stoppard with Bob Benedetti and Nick Rudall

    Jun. 19, 1979

    Studs talks with the actors about the Court Theatre's productions of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. Program includes some dramatic readings from the plays.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot; Tragicomedy in 2 Acts," with Alan Schneider

    1970

    Schneider directed the U.S. premiere of "Waiting for Godot" and was a close friend of Beckett's.

  • Discussing productions of her plays "Path of Ashes" and "Maid's Play," with playwright and director Nicole Dreiske

    Nov. 1, 1983

    Discussing productions of her plays "Path of Ashes" and "Maid's Play," with playwright and director Nicole Dreiske.

  • Discussing Northlight Theatre's production of "Uncommon Ground," with Jeremy Lawrence and Donald Moffat

    Jan. 7, 1991
  • Discussing Lord of the Dance with author, journalist and historian Garry Wills ; part 2

    Sep. 5, 1997
  • Discussing Harold Pinter with the cast of his play "the Caretaker"

    May. 1, 1963
  • 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."

  • Discussing German dramatist-poet Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" with Eugenie Leontovich

    May. 13, 1964

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

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