The director and actor discuss their interpretation of O'Neill's Hughie, presented by the Academy Festival Theatre in Lake Forest. Program includes clips of Robards' performance.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The actor and political activist shares with Studs her thoughts on the state of theater and civil rights. Includes clips of Terkel's interviews with Dee and Ossie Davis at the 1963 March on Washington, and a clip of the activist poet John Beecher.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The film, television, and stage actor discusses his one-man show FDR at the Studebaker Theater. Includes clips of President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking and dramatic readings by Vaughn.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The cast of Ntozake Shange's choreopoem discuss the origins of the production and how it combines dance, poetry, and song. Program includes some dramatic readings.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Studs talks with the cast of Trevor Griffin's Comedians about their production at the Wisdom Bridge Theater. Includes clips from the British music hall performer Max Miller (as The Cheeky Chappie).*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Studs asks the actor how he researched and prepared for his portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe at Chicago's Theatre Building.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Studs is joined by the Goodman Theatre cast members to discuss their staging of the Sam Shepard play. The program includes some dramatic readings.

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 

Studs joins the cast and director of the Goodman Theatre's production of Athol Fugard's Sizwe Banzi is Dead, to talk about the play and its portrayal of South African apartheid. Some dramatic readings are included.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The Saint Lucian poet and playwright joins Studs to talk about his staging of Mustapha Matura's Play Mas, at the Goodman Theatre.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations