Playwriting


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Acting and Directing for Stage and Screen
Jay DiPietro
June 20, 2009
00:45:07
Jay DiPietro, Dallas Roberts, Allessandro Nivola, and David Hoffman discuss the art of acting and directing on stage and screen, as part of the 2009 Provincetown Film Festival.
The Koltes Project
Eric Vigner
April 7, 2008
01:23:55
Eric Vigner, Isma'il Ibn Conner, and Del Hamilton discuss the US Koltes Project, a 10 year undertaking created in order to translate and produce six of Bernard-Marie Koltes' plays, and continue the artistic legacy of the French playwright.
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Creative Method: Eric Bentley on Translation
Eric Bentley
January 1, 2008
00:28:49
Through archived audio, renowned critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator Eric Bentley contributes to a WGBH Archive collection of 22 original radio essays by leading thinkers in the 20th Century on the nature of creativity in American arts, sciences, and professions.
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Eighth Wonder: The Library of Alexandria
Andrew G. Jameson
October 23, 2007
01:03:57
The Library of Alexandria is regarded as the eighth wonder of the ancient world and the first great library in Western history.
Des Teufels General: Ernst Udet and Carl Zuckmayer
Dirk Reuter
October 18, 2007
00:51:59
Dirk Reuter lectures on two WWI era Germans, exploring their historic genesis and the fictional fantasies that surround them. Dirk Reuter sheds new light on the last days of General Harras (alias Ernst Udet).
Tribute to August Wilson
Charles Dutton
January 15, 2007
01:23:20
Charles Dutton and Dwight Andrews pay tribute to August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who passed away in October 2005. Wilson's cycle of 10 prize-winning plays chronicles the lives of African Americans throughout the 20th century.
Boston IDEAS 2005: Melinda Lopez
Melinda Lopez
October 6, 2005
00:18:14
Award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez discusses her Cuban-American heritage, which she uses as a backdrop for dramas that address timeless and universal questions of humanity.
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54th Regiment and the Color of War
Susannah Melone
September 30, 2003
01:11:07
Shakespeare & Company actress Susannah Melone portrays Annie Kneeland Haggerty Shaw in The Color of War, an original play adapted and directed by Shakespeare & Company artist Mary Guzzy.