Talk Theatre in Chicago

On 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.

This 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.

On 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.

On 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.

On 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.

Our 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.

On 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.

On 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.

This 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.

This 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 of a stir in theatrical circles.