Fresh Air: The Best of Stage and Screen: Terry Gross Interviews 17 Stars of Stage and Screen

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Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends.

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The Elephant to Hollywood

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I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies

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Sense of Occasion

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The Actor Retires

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Lobby Hero

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Not Good Yet: Lessons From The First Six Months and One Hundred Comedy Performances of a Denver Open Mic Comedian

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Finding Your Comedic Voice

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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age

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The Authentic Actor: The Art and Business of Being Yourself

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Rewrites A Memoir

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Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them

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Drama: An Actor's Education

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My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir

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Funny Man: Mel Brooks

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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron

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Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

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Extended interview with Stephen Sondheim

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The Kid Stays in the Picture

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Little Known Facts: Patti LuPone

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Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

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The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up

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Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America

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The Neil Simon Collection

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A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood

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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

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Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

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Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There

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Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

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Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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Dracula (dramatic reading)

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Is this Anything?

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Here We Go Again: My Life In Television

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A Life in Parts

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Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre

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Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Save the Cat!

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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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The Science of Storytelling

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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Way I Heard It

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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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Death of a Salesman

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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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The Power of Myth

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Pure Drivel

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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

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#412 - The Line (A Chorus Line - feat. Francine Espiritu): A Chorus Line changed everything. It’s a statement theatre lovers have heard time and again. But until this exploration into the proliferation of the line as a theatrical device in musical theatre, I never really understood the depth of what A Chorus Line changed. For the layman, it was the first time in years that a Broadway musical reached the greater cultural conversation. Musical theatre had drifted from the zeitgeist after decades of leading the entertainment industry, but here it was back and in charge. For the theatre aficionados, it was the first Broadway musical to run longer than a decade. For comparison, prior to Broadway’s shutdown there were four musicals running that had opened more than ten years ago. But for theatre artisans, A Chorus Line was the first big musical without a separation between principals and chorus. In A Chorus Line, every character was named and given a point of view - not only in the stagi

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Two Actors Talk Acting

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Ozark's Kevin L. Johnson: On this episode, actor Kevin L Johnson, who plays Sam Dermody on the hugely popular Netflix show ...

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Where'd All the Method Acting Go?: In the 20th century, method acting was everywhere. Actors went to extreme lengths to inhabit the complicated psyche of a character, sometimes making audiences deeply uncomfortable. Think Robert De Niro in “Raging Bull” or Marlon Brando in “Apocalypse Now.” But in 2022, in our heyday of superhero blockbusters and bingeable story lines, the Method seems to be fading away. Wesley invites Isaac Butler — critic, historian and author of “The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act” — to dissect the Method. They discuss where it came from, its most legendary practitioners, and whether Hollywood has a place for it today.

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Mel Brooks: On Love, Life and Punchlines

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James Lipton - 'Inside the Actors Studio': The legendary interviewer, who's nearing his 90th birthday, reflects on life before his hit Bravo show (he was an actor, writer, producer and yes, pimp), discusses the episodes that mean the most to him and answers the questionnaire he's made famous.

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Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman: Simon Garfield, author of The Wrestling, The Nati…

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Paula Vogel (#31) November, 2004: Signature Theatre Company, Playwright in Residence

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Anthony Meindl: Solving Problems Creatively & Failure as an Option - #258

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Remembering Lynn Shelton

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Graham Nash, Part 1

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#148 - Method Acting: The Most Misunderstood System of Acting: A Dialogue with Isaac Butler: In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Isaac Butler about the history of method acting in the 20th century. They discuss who was Stanislavski and how he started his theater studio and system. They discuss the impact of Tolstoy and Chekhov on...

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Drama club: An all-theater episode, including deconstructing the patter song, Taylor Mac’s latest on Broadway and how so much Shakespeare ended up in so many parks.

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Episode 5: Lerner & Loewe

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Michaela Coel On 'Misfits' And 'I May Destroy You': Writer and actor Michaela Coel's new book is <em>Misfits: A Personal Manifesto.</em>

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Episode 1315 - Jeff Foxworthy

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Legendary Coach Larry Moss: A Rare Interview: Larry Moss is one of the most sought after acting coaches in the world today. He worked with Hele...

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Woody Allen: Woody Allen, in his very first podcast conversati…

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Jeff Tweedy with Nick Offerman: The friends and collaborators celebrate the release of Tweedy's new book with a convo about the parallels between songwriting and woodworking, plus Jeff performs.

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#234 - Creating Characters (feat. Tracee Beazer, Afra Hines, Kelvin Moon Loh, Barrett Martin, Bret Shuford): Creating a character in a new Broadway musical is a gift for any artist, because you get to infuse the show with your own artistry. But it is the lucky few who get to create characters multiple times in multiple musicals. By originating roles in multiple musicals, they helped in a small but meaningful way to shape the legacy of musical theatre for generations to come. ...at least, that’s easy for me to say from the outside. But does it feel like that to the actors who create these ensemble roles? Do they think about the characters they create once the shows close? I posed this question to five of the most experienced and storied ensemble actors working on Broadway today before a live audience at BroadwayCon 2020. Currently performing in Broadway’s Beetlejuice, Chicago, Frozen, Hadestown and Wicked, they each shared stories about the small but mighty influence they’ve had on som

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John Cleese: Creativity, A Short and Cheerful Guide: Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, in his practical and often very amusing book; Creativity; A short and cheerful guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on h

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Stephen Fry with David Baddiel: Comedian, actor, broadcaster and writer Stephen Fry joins David Baddiel in the Penguin studio to talk about his new book Mythos, which retells the Greek Myths. Stephen brings in words (instead of objects) that have inspired him and he and David discuss...

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The Life and Legacy of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim died last week at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91. For six decades, Mr. Sondheim, a composer-lyricist whose works include “Sweeney Todd” and “Into the Woods,” transformed musical theater into an art form as rich, complex and contradictory as life itself. “For me, the loss that we see pouring out of Twitter right now and everywhere you look as people write about their memories of Sondheim is for that person who says yes, devoting yourself to writing or to dancing or to singing or to composing — or whatever it is — is a worthwhile life,” Jesse Green, The Times’s chief theater critic, said in today’s episode. “And there really is no one who says that as strongly in his life and in his work as Sondheim does.” Today, we chart Mr. Sondheim’s career, influence and legacy.

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Zahi Hawass and Kent Weeks: Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Much of what we've learned over the past half-century about the ancient Egyptians, we've learned from these two archaeologists. They've both made major discoveries and have played a crucial role in protecting the pyramids and burial sites for future generations. Zahi Hawass is a National Geographic explorer, and once oversaw all of antiquities Egyptian government. But beyond that, he has drawn millions of tourists to visit Egypt, with his many books and television documentaries. He wears a signature hat, and is famous for his outsized personality. Kent Weeks is a more professorial type. He is retired now, but for 60 years lived and breathed the life of the Pharaohs. He created what many consider the most important preservation effort ever undertaken in Egypt: The Theban Mapping Project. It catalogued every tomb and every shard of pottery unearthed in The Valley of the Kings. We hear just what motivated each of them to spend

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Jon Favreau: Jon Favreau an American political commentator, creator and co-host of Pod Save America and the former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama. Jon discusses his heartbreak on the 2004 Kerry campaign, his devotion to the democratic ideal of pe

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The inside story of HBO, with Jim Miller

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Tig Notaro: TIG NOTARO (Boyish Girl Interrupted, One Mississippi, Transparent, Happy to Be Here) joins Anna to discuss high school, delivering pizza, a three-year-old’s wisdom, self-diagnosed prosopagnosia, Taylor Dayne and the progression of a comedy career. Anna and Tig then give Unqualified advice to callers Abby and Jerry.

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Wanda Sykes: The Slap, Chappelle and Turning 60: It’s been more than three decades since Wanda Sykes first stepped onto the stand-up stage. And sometimes, it feels like she’s just now getting her due.

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Angela Lansbury (#326) - June, 2011: Five time Tony winning Actress.

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Writer-Director Patrick Marber on Working With His Artistic Heroes: “It’s weird until it’s not.”