Let's Talk About Theatre: The Cassandra Sessions
Release Date: 06/29/2021
Let's Talk About Theatre: A Small Fire
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Patrick Dooley talks to playwright Adam Bock and director Mary Ann Rodgers about childhood theatre companies, writing process, and Shotgun's upcoming production of Bock's play A Small Fire.
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Let's Talk About Theatre: Babes In Ho-lland
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Leigh Rondon-Davis talks to Babes in Ho-lland playwright Deneen Reynolds-Knott about Riot Grrrl, starting college, and the Black experience in predominately white environments. ! Check out if you're in Montgomery!
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Let's Talk About Theatre: Dream Hou$e
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Leigh Rondon-Davis talks about spectacle, spite, and HGTV with Dream Hou$e playwright Eliana Pipes and director Karina Gutiérrez.
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Let's Talk About Theatre: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Join Tony Award-winning creator of 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' creator Dave Malloy in conversation with co-directors Patrick Dooley and Erin Mei-Ling Stuart as they discuss the genesis of the musical and Malloy's start in theatre.
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Let's Talk About Theatre: The Cassandra Sessions
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Let’s Talk About Theatre will feature interviews with playwrights and other contributing artists of past and future shows. The interviews will be focused on shows from our upcoming 30th Anniversary Season as well as conversations about past programming.
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Let's Talk About Theatre: My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre
The Shotgun Players Podcast
'My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre' playwright Diana Oh appears live with director Mina Morita and TBA director-in-residence Leigh Rondon-Davis, recorded on June 10, 2021.
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Episode 16 - It's not you, it's the story.
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Hanah talks with Celeste Martore, set designer of Kill Move Paradise and The Niceties, about the architecture and set design, what makes an oppressive space, and figuring out how to design in the wild world of Zoom.
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Episode 15 - Costume Design with Brooke Jennings
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Hanah talks with Brooke Jennings, designer of Arcadia, Vinegar Tom, Henry V, and assistant on Iron Shoes. Learn about helping actors find characters, why you should be kind to costume shop managers, how to make a fake pregnancy belly, and that one time Brooke threw together a whole Regency gown in 48 hours.
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Episode 14 - Lighting in Rep with Ray Oppenheimer
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Hanah talks with Ray Oppenheimer about lighting at the Ashby Stage, from The Coast of Utopia to the 2016 Season in Rep. Listen through the end for a meditation on the ethereal nature of light and sound and hot tips for getting the best lighting for your next Zoom call.
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Episode 13 - Sound Design for Theater and Radio
The Shotgun Players Podcast
Hanah talks with Sara Witsch (The Claim) and Elton Bradman (Kill Move Paradise) about their recent experiences designing radio plays in quarantine, missing their in-person theater collaborators, and their attempts to compose in harmony with the Ashby Stage air conditioner.
info_outlineLet’s Talk About Theatre will feature interviews with playwrights and other contributing artists of past and future shows. The interviews will be focused on shows from our upcoming 30th Anniversary Season as well as conversations about past programming. The program will be offered as a video series and an audio podcast.
'The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World' creators Beth Wilmurt and Jake Rodriguez appear live with Shotgun Players founding artistic director Patrick Dooley on June 17, 2021 at 5pm PST.
Cassandra—that mythic figure from Greek legend, cursed with prophecies that nobody believes—knows she is soon to die. She locks herself in a studio to record an album of songs entitled This World, hoping to leave a time capsule of truths about the state of the world that might one day be heard. How to tell the truth in a way that compels people not only to listen and sing along, but to make the changes they haven’t? Featuring songs by Berkeley native, Malvina Reynolds, 'The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World' is a new theater piece about making meaning of the world by making music about it.