Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Valk, Kate
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. City University of New York
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Performer Kate Valk discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. After studying acting at NYU with Stella Adler, and then with the Experimental Theatre Wing, Valk found her "artistic home" at the Wooster Group, which, since the 1970s, has been producing innovative, unusual theater. Valk discusses her experiences working with the dedicated group of theater artists of the Wooster Group; the group's tours in Europe during the 1980s and 90s; their process for creating a new work; the prevalence of avant garde theater groups in New York City in the 1970s; the group's interest in technological uses of sound, film and video; their controversy with playwright Arthur Miller, who threatened to sue over their reworking of his play The crucible as part of their own production; the creative process of the group's director, Elizabeth LeCompte; and how the group has stayed intact, despite the comings and goings of personnel over the years.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York
2. Television
3. Interviews
4. Theater > New York (State) > New York
5. Talk shows
6. Valk, Kate > Interviews
7. Theater > Production and direction
8. Women in the theater
9. Wooster Group
10. Actresses > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2048

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 14, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 14, 2004.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Kate Valk [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 14, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 14, 2004.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

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

Added author

1. Valk, Kate, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2048