Research Catalog
[Interviews with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards]
- Title
- [Interviews with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]
- Publication
- New York, 1991.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Four separate interviews, two with Colleen Dewhurst and two with Jason Robards (ca. 28 min. each)
- Colleen Dewhurst talks about how she came to study at New York City's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, her association with Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival where she got her first big break, acting Shakespeare with Papp, her relationship with José Quintero and the works of Eugene O'Neill, Quintero's style of directing especially in Moon for the misbegotten and Long day's journey into night, and Harold Clurman as a teacher.
- Jason Robards talks about his first experiences in New York, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he taught, surviving by working all sorts of jobs, both in and out of theater, his first break, Eugene O'Neill's The iceman cometh, how he got the part and his feelings about the role, his connection with the plays of O'Neill, his feelings about playing The iceman cometh twice in his career, 30 years apart, playing in live television in New York, playing Shakespeare at Ontario and Cambridge, being part of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center and his love of performing repertory, the difficulty of playing long runs, his experiences playing many roles on television, how to study acting, and his feelings about the method school of acting.
- Series Statement
- CUNY Spotlight
- Subjects
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center
- Actors > Interviews
- Television acting
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 > Iceman cometh
- Acting > Study and teaching > New York (State) > New York
- Robards, Jason > Interviews
- Actresses > Interviews
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 > Moon for the misbegotten
- New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
- Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980 > Friends and associates
- Interviews
- Papp, Joseph > Friends and associates
- Quintero, José > Friends and associates
- Dewhurst, Colleen > Interviews
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 > Long day's journey into night
- Method acting
- Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.
- Call Number
- NCOW 106
- OCLC
- NYPG98-F359
- Title
- [Interviews with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]
- Imprint
- New York, 1991.
- Series
- CUNY Spotlight
- Performer
- Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
- Event
- Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.
- Added Author
- Dewhurst, Colleen, interviewee.Robards, Jason, interviewee.Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.City University of New York.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 106