Interviews

Interview with Giamdonmenico Cupaiuolo, actor in Italy’s I Termini Company

Interview with Giamdonmenico Cupaiuolo, actor in Italy’s I Termini Company

Interviewed by Steve Rowland   Giandomenico Cupaiuolo, Brutus in I Termini Company’ Julius Caesar, at the Shakespeare’s Globe.  Part of the Globe to Globe International Shakespeare Festival. Interview conducted with simultaneous translation between English (Rowland) and Italian (Cupaiuolo) London, May 2nd, 2012.     Rowland:  Do you recommend acting as a profession for young people?   Cupaiuolo: It’s a really […]

Interview with Wole Oguntokun, Director of Renegade Theatre from Nigeria

Interview with Wole Oguntokun, Director of Renegade Theatre from Nigeria

Interviewed by Steve Rowland   Wole Oguntokun, director of Renegade Theatre’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Shakespeare’s Globe.  Part of The Globe to Globe International Shakespeare Festival.   Wole Oguntokun’s career as a major producer, director and writer has spanned more than a decade. The recipient of an award for artistic excellence from the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts […]

Marion Cotillard interviewed

Marion Cotillard interviewed

John Mitchell, Interview March 10, 2014   In some ways Marion Cotillard seems like a movie star out of another era, as sultry and soft-lit as a 1940s George Hurrell portrait. Maybe that’s because—at least for American audiences—she appeared fully formed in her wrenching and accomplished performance as Edith Piaf in 2007’s La Vie en Rose (for which she won an Academy Award). She arrived, […]

March 10, 2014 · 0 comments · Actors, Interviews
Folger Library History: Director Michael Witmore interviewed by WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi

Folger Library History: Director Michael Witmore interviewed by WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi

Folger Library Director Michael Witmore, speaking to WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi about the history of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Monday, January 6, 2014   NNAMDI: (your) neighbors include the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. How did the Folger come to be established in that particular spot? WITMORE:  Well, it’s an interesting story. It’s said that they stopped over on a […]

March 4, 2014 · 0 comments · Interviews