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Downstage Center
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Go in-depth with the leading artists and professionals working on stage today when you go "Downstage Center." Downstage Center, a collaboration of the American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio, is a weekly theatrical interview program that spotlights the creative talents on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world, with in-depth conversations that simply can"t be found anywhere else.
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Now in its fourth year, Downstage Center has been featured by the Associated Press and Slate.com as the place to go for theatrical talk.

Downstage Center is heard weekly on XM Satellite Radio's Channel 28, On Broadway, with new programs debuting Fridays at 6 pm, followed by encores on Saturday at 12 noon, Sunday at 7 and Wednesday at midnight (all times eastern).

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Douglas Carter Beane
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Author of Xanadu and The Little Dog Laughed
Original air date - June 22, 2007
Running Time - 56:59.

Bio of Douglas Carter Beane

Playwright Douglas Carter Beane talks about how his fascination with Greek myths dovetailed with a producer's overture to adapt a famously bad movie, resulting in the new musical Xanadu; describes his years of making ends meet by staffing the hearing device booths at Broadway theatres, and manning the stage door at the Neil Simon Theatre; recalls his break-through year as a writer with Advice From A Caterpiller and The Country Club; chronicles the origin of his influential Off-Broadway company The Drama Department; and considers why he's managed to write roles with specific actresses in mind in both As Bees In Honey Drown and The Little Dog Laughed, only to have those shows play to great success with entirely different women in the leads.

Additional resources:
Xanadu on Broadway: Official Site

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