Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Sanford, Tim
2. Shewey, Don
3. Hoffman, Patrick
4. Parker/Hodges Productions
5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
6. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (78 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Tim Sanford, artistic director of Playwrights Horizons since 1996, discusses his career with journalist Don Shewey. He begins with his arrival in New York as an aspiring director in the mid-1980s, and describes how he became literary manager at Playwrights Horizons under artistic director André Bishop. He examines the period after Bishop departed when Don Scardino took the position, and analyzes some of the difficulties that followed. Because Playwrights Horizons has always accepted unsolicited manuscripts Sanford touches on some of the issues that arise in the company's relationships with playwrights, and talks about a number of writers whose work has been produced by P.H. throughout its history, including Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang. He describes the development of Annie Baker's recent play Circle mirror transformation in detail. He also discusses the development of musicals, and the renovation of Playwrights Horizon's space in the early 2000's.

Subject

1. Sanford, Tim > Interviews
2. Bishop, André > Friends and associates
3. Scardino, Don > Friends and associates
4. Wasserstein, Wendy > Friends and associates
5. Durang, Christopher, 1949- > Friends and associates
6. Baker, Annie, 1981-
7. Playwrights Horizons (Theater : New York, N.Y.)
8. Playwrights Horizons (Theater : New York, N.Y.) > History
9. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
10. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
11. Theater > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 342

Access (note)

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Don Shewey.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 22, 2010.

Funding (note)

1. Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Title

1. Interview with Tim Sanford [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Parker/Hodges Productions ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

1. New York, c2010.

Access

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

1. Interviewer: Don Shewey.

Event

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 22, 2010.

Funding

1. Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Sanford, Tim, interviewee.
2. Shewey, Don, interviewer.
3. Parker/Hodges Productions.
4. Hoffman, Patrick.
5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
6. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research call number

1. NCOW 342