"Broadway in chicago" 

[description] On this week's podcast of Talk Theatre in Chicago, we have an interview with Eileen LaCario, from Broadway in Chicago . Also, Tom Williams gives us an audio review of a highly recommended show, and Dustin Mote reports the week's Theatre News

[description] This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with Tim Gregory, the Artistic Director of Provision Theater Company. He talks about thier current show, Cotton Patch Gospel, as well as their new space and upcoming season.

[description] This week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we interview the Artistic Director of the Porchlight Music Theatre, Walter Stearns. He talks about their current show Pacific Overtures as well as their upcoming shows.

[description] This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago podcast features Criss Henderson, Executive Director at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He talks with Anne Nicholson Weber about Chicago Shakespeare's World's Stage Series -- how shows from around the world are chosen for the series, the logistical and artistic challenges of bringing them to Chicago, and the importance of exposing Chicago artists and audiences to theatre from around the world.

[description] This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago interview podcast focuses on Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends -- a new musical playing at No Exit Café. Anne Nicholson Weber first interviews the book writer, lyricist and composer -- Joanne Koch, Owen Kalt and Ilya Levinson -- about creating the show, and then interviews the show's star, Bethany Thomas, about her performance as Belle Barth.

[description] On this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we have an interview with actor Brian Dennehy who is starring in Desire Under The Elms which is playing at the Goodman Theatre.

[description] This week's Talk Theatre podcast features Christina Calvit and Marilyn Campbell, who talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about the hows and whys of adapting novels for the stage: how to choose the aspects of the novel that will be staged, how to reduce the text to its essentials, how to stage narration, and, most importantly, why do it in the first place. Christina Calvit's adaptation of Mariette in Ecstacy recently opened at Lifeline Theatre, and Marilyn Campbell's adaptation of Crime and Punishment, which was developed at Writers' Theatre, is now being produced around the world.

[description] This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago interview podcast features Chicago lyricist and composer, Julie Shannon, who created Bailiwick Repertory Theater's perennial favorite, The Christmas Schooner, with Chicago actor and book writer John Reeger. Shannon talks about her very happy collaboration with Reeger, the continuing success of the show around the country and beyond, the evolution of her career, and how she sets about to write a song.

[description] An interview with actor Brian McCaskill who is one of the stars of Million Dollar Quartet which is now playing at the Apollo Theater. He talks about the show as well as his acting career.

[description] This week's Talk Theatre in Chicago Podcast features three local critics: Chris Jones, Chief Critic for The Chicago Tribune; Tony Adler, Arts Editor for The Reader; and free-lance reviewer Kerry Reid. They talk with Anne Nicholson Weber about the job of the critic, what gets reviewed, the importance of context and the joy of surprise.