Stage Talk: Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 / After Life of the Mind

Fri, Jan 29, 2010

This week on Stage Talk – a conversation about directing local theater with guests Steve Hunt and Mike Daniels. Hunt directs ACT’s Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 which opens tonight. And Daniels is the director of After Life Of the Mind now playing at Out North.

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Stage Talk: I Hate Hamlet

Fri, Jan 22, 2010

Valley Performing Arts presents I Hate Hamlet, January 15 -31 at the Machetanz Theatre in Wasilla. This week on Stage Talk, Mark and and Jean host Patricia Blossom and Logun Keller both actors in I Hate Hamlet.

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Stage Talk: Wind Blown and Dripping

Fri, Jan 15, 2010

Stage Talk hosts Jean and Mark visit with guests were Peter Porco (playwright) and Dick Reichman (director) of the play ”Wind Blown and Dripping” now playing at Cyrano’s through January 24th.

Porco, a former staffer at the Anchorage Daily News, talks about his play featuring Dasheil Hammet’s tour of duty in Adak during World War II.

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HOSTS:

Mark Muro, theater critic
Jean Paal, theater critic

GUESTS:

Peter Porco, playwright, Wind Blown and Dripping
Dick Reichman, director, Wind Blown and Dripping

ORIGINAL BROADCAST: Fri, January 8, 2010 at 2:15 p.m.

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Stage Talk: Heart

Fri, Jan 8, 2010

Stage Talk hosts Mark and Jean and director Kevin Bennett discovered Heart at the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez this past summer and now the Alaska Community Theater is putting on the play this weekend at Wild Berry Theater. The playwright Judd Silverman joins the director, Kevin Bennett on Stage Talk this week to discuss the all-star Alaskan cast and the world premiere of Heart in Anchorage this weekend.

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Stage Talk: Under :30 / Debutante Balls

Fri, Dec 18, 2009

This week on Stage Talk, Out North theater celebrates its 16th year of Under :30 – a showcase of local plays performed by Alaskans. Hear more about this year’s Under :30 and Debutante Balls, a stand-up comedy dance happening at Out North in January.

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Stage Talk: Little Magic Snowman / Miracle on 34th Street

Fri, Dec 11, 2009

With Christmas right around the corner, the Anchorage theater scene is jam packed with holiday productions. This week on Stage Talk, hear from Wayne Mitchell, education director at TBA Theatre who puts on The Little Magic Snowman December 11 – 20, and Todd Sherwood who plays “Kris Kringle” in Anchorage Community Theater’s Miracle on 34th Street.

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Stage Talk: BARK! The Musical

Fri, Dec 4, 2009

Composer of BARK! The Muscial – David Troy Francis joins hosts Mark and Jean on this week’s Stage Talk. A new hit musical about the world from your dog’s point of view, BARK! The Muscial is now playing at Cyrano’s through December 20th. Hear more about the show on Stage Talk.

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Stage Talk: Babes in Toyland

Fri, Nov 27, 2009

Garry Forester of Valley Performing Arts joins host Jean Paal this week to talk about Babes in Toyland now playing at the VPA Machetanz Theatre in Wasilla.

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Stage Talk: Christmas Belles

Fri, Nov 20, 2009

This week on Stage Talk, Jean Paal hosts UAA’s Theatre and Dance Department Director, Jessica Jacob, who talks about the opening of Christmas Belles now playing at the Main Stage Theatre of the UAA Fine Arts Building, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through December 6.

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Stage Talk: Almost, Alaska

Fri, Nov 13, 2009

This week on Stage Talk, Jean Paal hosts director, Erick Hayden and set designer, Margaret Hugi-Lewis from Almost, Alaska, a play about love, falling in and out of it in remote and mythical town of Almost, Alaska. Almost, Alaska is now playing at Cyrano’s through November 22.

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