Talk Theatre in Chicago
197 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA weekly podcast about Chicago's Theatre scene on Chicago's Premier Theatre Podcast Network - Talk Theatre in Chicago
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TTIC- Traces - Nov 22, 2010
November 22, 2010 06:01 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBOur guests this week are Mason Ames, Phillipe Normand-Jenny and Florian Zumkehr, three members of the hyperkinetic cast of Traces, the circus-based show currently playing at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place. They talk about how they became circus artists, Montreal as a hub of the circus community, the evolution of circus from traditional to new forms, and why they love performing in Traces.
TTIC- Hall and Bartram - Nov 15, 2010
November 15, 2010 06:01 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast, Tom Williams talks with the music and lyrics composer Neil Bartram and the book writer Brian Hill of Chicago Muse's The Story Of My Life playing at the Victory Gardens Theater. They talk about the process of bringing their show to stage.
TTIC- Robert Falls - Nov 8, 2010
November 08, 2010 06:01 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week's podcast guest is Robert Falls, Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre and the director of Goodman's current production of Chekov's The Seagull. Falls talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about his exploration of the theories Constantin Stanislavski - the author of two classic texts on acting who was also Chekov's collaborator and director - in the context of rehearsing Chekov's play.
TTIC- Jon Steinhagen - Nov 1, 2010
November 01, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Jon Steinhagen about his current role as Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof which is currently playing at the Raven Theatre.
TTIC- The Iliad - Oct 25, 2010
October 25, 2010 06:01 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast, Benno Nelson talks with Director Steve Wilson and actresses Najwa Brown and Jaiden Fallo about A Red Orchid Theatre's The Iliad which was adapted by Craig Wright for the young women of A Red Orchid's Youth Ensemble.
TTIC- Allison Powell - Oct 18, 2010
October 18, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Allison Powell, the adapter of Filament Theatre Ensemble's Choose Thine Own Adventure.
TTIC- Night And Day - Oct 11, 2010
October 11, 2010 06:01 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBOur guests on this week's podcast are Director James Bohnen, and actors Greg Matthew Anderson and Ernest Perry, who join Anne Nicholson Weber to discuss Remy Bumppo's production of Tom Stoppard's Night and Day and the challenges of putting Stoppard's ideas and language on the stage.
TTIC- Mary Zimmerman - Oct 4, 2010
October 04, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Mary Zimmerman, the adapter and director of Candide playing at the Goodman Theatre. She talks about the show and her process of bringing it to stage.
TTIC- Lisa Wolf - Sep 27, 2010
September 27, 2010 06:01 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago Podcast, Tom Williams interviews Lisa Wolf- one of the hosts of Hollywood 360 which is on WIND 560 AM every Saturday night from 8pm-1am.
TTIC- The Weir - Sep 20, 2010
September 20, 2010 06:01 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBDirector Matt Miller and actors Brad Armacost and Sarah Wellington join Anne Nicholson Weber to discuss Seanachai Theatre's production of The Weir, by Conor McPherson, which is currently playing at the Irish American Heritage Center. They talk about storytelling, listening on stage, and what makes McPherson's deceptively simple play so powerful.
TTIC- Theatre Wit Shows - Sep 13, 2010
September 13, 2010 06:01 - 38 minutes - 35 MBOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have a double feature on two new shows at Theatre Wit. First Tom Williams talks with playwright Kathleen Akerley and actor Dylan Stuckey about Sideshow Theatre Company's Theories Of The Sun. In part 2 Tom talks with director Marston Sullivan and music director Nicholas Davio from BoHo Theatre's Big River.
TTIC- University Theatre Departments - Sep 6, 2010
September 06, 2010 06:01 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBFor this week's podcast, Anne Nicholson Weber is joined by the heads of the theatre departments at three Chicago institutions. John Culbert of Depaul University, John Green of Columbia College and Rives Collins of Northwestern University talk with Anne about how their theatre training programs affect the ecology of the Chicago theatre community (and vice versa), what makes Chicago's scene unique and why theatre education matters.
TTIC- Andrew Carter and Terry Hamilton - Aug 30, 2010
August 30, 2010 06:01 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Andrew Carter and Terry Hamilton who are currently in TimeLine Theatre's production of Frost/Nixon. They talk about the show as well as how they prepared for the roles of David Frost and Richard Nixon.
TTIC- Peter Handler - Aug 23, 2010
August 23, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBOur podcast this week features Peter Handler, Program Officer at the Driehaus Foundation -- a local foundation with a strong history of supporting dance and theatre in Chicago. He talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about his foundation's history and philosophy of supporting emerging and small theatre companies and artists.
TTIC- Julie Ritchey and Christian Libonati - Aug 16, 2010
August 16, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with two members of the Filament Theatre Ensemble- Artistic Director Julie Ritchey and Managing Director Christian Libonati. They talk about the history of the Filament Theatre as well as their upcoming shows.
TTIC- Jeremy Wechsler - Aug 9, 2010
August 09, 2010 06:01 - 42 minutes - 39 MBOn this week's episode of Talk Theatre In Chicago Benno Nelson talks with Jeremy Wechsler, the artistic director of Theater Wit, which is hosting the Chicago Theater Anti-Conference taking place Aug 20 - 22.
TTIC- George Hearn - Aug 2, 2010
August 02, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Broadway legend George Hearn. He talks about his recent show at Ravinia, A Little Sondheim Music, his upcoming show of Annie Get Your Gun, as well as his acting career.
TTIC- That Sordid Little Story - Jul 26, 2010
July 26, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThis week's podcast features four members of The New Colony -- Artistic Director Andrew Hobgood, writers Will Cavedo and Benno Nelson, and Music Director Henry Riggs -- who join Anne Nicholson Weber to discuss their current show, That Sordid Little Story, and the distinctive group process the company uses to generate new works targeted to a younger theatre audience.
TTIC- Kevin Mayes - Jul 19, 2010
July 19, 2010 06:01 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Kevin Mayes, the executive director of Bailiwick Chicago. He talks about the theatre company as well as their current two shows, Aida and F**king Men.
TTIC- Peter Yarrow - Jul 12, 2010
July 12, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Peter Yarrow who is best known from the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He talks about their upcoming show at Ravinia later this month as well as how they continue after the passing of Mary Travers.
TTIC- John Mossman and Jim Lynch - Jul 5, 2010
July 05, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBTThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Jim Lynch, the author of The Tallest Man as well as the director John Mossman. They talk about the show as well as The Artistic Home.
TTIC- Fred Anzevino - Jun 28, 2010
June 28, 2010 06:01 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBThis week, Anne Nicholson Weber interviews Fred Anzevino, the Artistic Director and one of the founders of Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. They talk about Theo Ubique's development and history, the current show (a revue of the music of Harold Arlen called Sweet and Hot), and cabaret theatre in general.
TTIC- Brian Posen - Jun 21, 2010
June 21, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 30.1 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Brian Posen, the new artistic director for Stage 773. He talks about his career in Chicago Theatre as well as buying the Theatre Building Chicago.
TTIC- Suicide Incorporated - Jun 14, 2010
June 14, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis week's podcast features playwright Andrew Hinderaker, director Jonathan Berry and producer and actor Michael Patrick Thornton, who join Anne Nicholson Weber to discuss the three-year process of readings, workshops and rehearsals that will culminate later this week in The Gift Theatre Company's world-premiere of Hinderaker's new play, Suicide Incorporated.
TTIC- Welz Kauffman - Jun 7, 2010
June 07, 2010 06:01 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago Podcast we talk with the president and chief executive officer of Ravinia Festival, Welz Kauffman. He talks about the very successful Ravinia Festival as well as the upcoming season.
TTIC- Neverwhere - May 31, 2010
May 31, 2010 06:01 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThe topic of this week's podcast is the stage magic in Lifeline's production of Neverwhere. Director Paul Holmquist, Scenic and Properties Designer Alan Donahue, and Video Projection Designer Charlie Alves join Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about how you put an epic-sized, fantastical world onto the stage of a small storefront theatre.
TTIC- Joshua Schmidt and Keith Parham - May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with music composer Joshua Schmidt and lighting designer Keith Parham about their current show Baal by Tuta Theatre Chicago playing at the Chopin Theatre.
TTIC- Gigi Pritzker - May 17, 2010
May 17, 2010 06:01 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBOur guest on this week's podcast is Chicago producer Gigi Pritzker, who co-produced Million Dollar Quartet. She talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about the journey the show has taken from a first reading at her theatre incubator in the Coronet Theatre in L.A., through Daytona Beach, Seattle, and Chicago, and now on to Broadway, where the show is nominated for three Tony awards.
TTIC- Jeremy Wechsler - May 10, 2010
May 10, 2010 06:01 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Jeremy Wechsler, the artistic director of Theater Wit. He talks bout their new space and their current show, Spin.
TTIC- Nic Dimond - May 3, 2010
May 03, 2010 06:01 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThis week on Talk Theatre In Chicago, Benno Nelson sits down to talk with Nic Dimond, artistic director of Strawdog Theatre to talk about the upcoming season, and the day to day job of running a company.
TTIC- Dennis Kelly - Apr 26, 2010
April 26, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 31 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Dennis Kelly, one of the stars of The Hiding Place playing at the Provision Theater. He talks about the show as well as his acting career.
TTIC- Stephen Ouimette - Apr 19, 2010
April 19, 2010 06:01 - 34 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week's podcast profiles Stephen Ouimette, who is currently appearing as Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about his wide-ranging career acting for theatre and television, voicing animated films and directing for the stage.
TTIC- Terry McCabe - Apr 12, 2010
April 12, 2010 06:01 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Terry McCabe, the Artisitc Director of City Lit Theater Company. He talks about their current show The Body Snatchers as well as their upcoming season.
TTIC- Charlie Newell and Drew Dir - Apr 5, 2010
April 05, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBOn this week's podcast, Anne Nicholson Weber is joined by the Artistic Director at Court Theatre, Charlie Newell, and the Court Theatre's resident dramaturg, Drew Dir. They discuss the Court's current production of The Illusion, a free adaptation by Tony Kushner of Pierre Corneille's French Baroque masterpiece, and describe an unusual collaboration with professors and students at the University of Chicago to investigate the original Corneille text, Corneille's world and Kushner's adaptation.
TTIC- Emilie Beck and Bernard Beck - Mar 29, 2010
March 29, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with playwright and director Emilie Beck and her father Bernard Beck who is appearing in her one-man show Number Of People playing at the Piven Theatre in Evanston.
TTIC- Abigail's Party - Mar 22, 2010
March 22, 2010 06:01 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBOur guests on this week's interview podcast are Kirsten Fitzgerald, Mierka Girten and Natalie West -- three of the cast members from Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh, which is currently playing at A Red Orchid Theatre. They talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about comic acting, playing drunk and the actor's dual relationship with the other actors and with the audience.
TTIC- Emily Skinner - Mar 15, 2010
March 15, 2010 06:01 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with actress Emily Skinner who is one of the stars of Billy Elliot The Musical at the Ford Oriental Theatre. She talks about her role in the hit musical as well as her acting career.
TTIC- Martin Kamensky and Andrew Hobgood - Mar 8, 2010
March 08, 2010 06:01 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Benno Nelson talks about theatre and accounting with Martin Kamensky from Rockstar CPA and Andrew Hobgood from The New Colony.
TTIC- Renee Matthews - Mar 1, 2010
March 01, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week's on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast features actress Renee Matthews who talks with Tom Williams about her current role in Over The Tavern at Noble Fool as well as her great acting career.
TTIC- Victoria Bailey and Todd London - Feb 22, 2010
February 22, 2010 06:01 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBThis week's podcast is something a little different. Last month, the League of Chicago Theatre's hosted an event at Chicago Dramatists centered on a new book called Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play, which was recently published by Theatre Devleopment Fund. Outrageous Fortune is a study of the lives of America playwrights, the relationship between playwrights and non-profit producers, and the process by which new plays get produced. The book has caused something ...
TTIC- Dale Benson - Feb 15, 2010
February 15, 2010 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with actor Dale Benson who is currently starring in Noises Off at the Theatre at the Center. He talks about the role as well as his acting career.
TTIC- The Brother Sister Plays - Feb 8, 2010
February 08, 2010 06:01 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week's interview podcast features the cast of The Brothers Size, which is the middle play in Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays, currently playing at Steppenwolf Theatre. Phillip James Brannon, K. Todd Freeman and Glenn Davis talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about their approach to McCraney's poetic voice, his mythic influences and the unusual three-man triangle at the heart of the play.
TTIC- Mary Beth Fisher - Feb 1, 2010
February 01, 2010 06:01 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Mary Beth Fisher who is currently starring in The Year of Magical Thinking at the Court Theater. She talks about the one-person show as well as how she met with author Joan Didion to prespare for the role.
TTIC- Gary Griffin and Jim Corti - Jan 25, 2010
January 25, 2010 06:01 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThe subject of this week's interview podcast is Noel Coward. Jim Corti, director of Writers Theatre's Oh Coward, and Gary Griffin, director of Private Lives at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, join Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about Coward's aesthetic and how each of them chose to re-examine Coward's work with today's audiences in mind.
TTIC- Sara Sheperd - Jan 18, 2010
January 18, 2010 06:01 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Sara Sheperd who is currently starring in Funny Girl as Fanny Brice at the Drury Lane- Oakbrook. She talks about the role as well as her acting career.
TTIC- Young Playwrights Festival - Jan 11, 2010
January 11, 2010 06:01 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBThe three winners of the 24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival at Pegasus Players are college freshmen Gabriella Bonamici, Giziang Lee, and Kat Blackburn. Gabi, Gigi and Kat are joined by festival director Ilesa Duncan and one of the three playwright mentors, Andrew Hinderaker, to talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about the selection, mentoring and production processes that culminate this month with a professional production of the three winning scripts.
TTIC- Larry Yando - Jan 4, 2010
January 04, 2010 06:01 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBOn this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with actor Larry Yando about his career and his reoccurring role as Scrooge at the Goodman Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol.