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Theater talk.

Title
Theater talk. Wit. Margaret Edson and Derek Anson Jones, Robert Simonson [videorecording] / [produced by] Susan Haskins, Theater Talk Productions, Inc. ; director, Adam Walker.
Publication
New York, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Jones, Derek Anson
  • Edson, Margaret, 1961-
  • Simonson, Robert
  • Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
  • Haskins, Susan
  • Walker, Adam
  • Theater Talk Productions, Inc
Description
1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
Summary
  • Director Derek Anson Jones and playwright Margaret Edson discuss their collaboration on Ms. Edson's play Wit, the play's development process, and their long friendship (19 min.).
  • Robert Simonson of Playbill Online discusses the musical revue Fosse, producer Cameron Mackintosh's plan to import his British production of Oklahoma! to Broadway, and his new book Role of a lifetime (9 min.).
  • Performance excerpts: Kathleen Chalfant in Wit.
Series Statement
Theater talk
Alternative Title
Theater talk: Edson/Jones/Simonson
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Talk shows.
  • Television.
Note
  • This is Episode #513 of Theater talk.
  • Interviews with Margaret Edson and Derek Anson Jones; and with Robert Simonson.
  • Poor audio quality.
  • Credits at end of tape.
  • "In memory of Bess House Hopkins, 1932-1999."--Closing credits.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios located at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., Jan. 8, 1999.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Call Number
NCOX 1599
OCLC
NYPG00-F153
Title
Theater talk. Wit. Margaret Edson and Derek Anson Jones, Robert Simonson [videorecording] / [produced by] Susan Haskins, Theater Talk Productions, Inc. ; director, Adam Walker.
Imprint
New York, c1999.
Series
Theater talk
Performer
Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
Event
Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios located at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., Jan. 8, 1999.
Local Note
Gift of Susan Haskins.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Added Author
Jones, Derek Anson, interviewee.
Edson, Margaret, 1961- interviewee.
Simonson, Robert, interviewee.
Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.
Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
Haskins, Susan, producer.
Walker, Adam, director.
Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
Haskins, Susan, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 1599
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