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What do stage actors, directors, playwrights, critics and other theatre professionals think about theatre in the age dominated by movies and television? Exploring subjects ranging from continuity to point of view, Shakespeare to love scenes, and many other topics, these interviews examine how theatre people make theatre work. In conversation with Nicholas Hynter, Simon Callow, Wallace Shawn, Martha Lavey, Frank Rich, Peter Parnell, Richard Monette, Julie Taymor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Leveaux, Michael Khan, Adrian Lester, Peter Hall, Patrick Marber, Drew Hodges, Gordon Davidson, Linda Emond, Robert Brustein, Paul Schofield, Richard Eyre, Anna Deveare Smith, Robert Falls, Mel Kenyon and Tony Kushner.