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Katie Holmes’s ‘Hedda,’ Savion Glover on ‘Chez Joey,’ and Theatre Training

Katie Holmes, Savion Glover.

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts).

This busy episode includes a conversation with Richard LaGravenese and Savion Glover, book writer and choreographer/co-director, respectively, of Chez Joey, a new revisal of the iconic Rodgers & Hart musical Pal Joey, now running at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; a chat with actor Katie Holmes and director Barry Edelstein about their production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, starting previews tomorrow at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, in a new adaptation by playwright/screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson; and a discussion with writer/professor Rosie Brownlow-Calkin, who penned a key piece in our current print issue looking at the state of theatre training.

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You can download the episode here. If you have any feedback or suggestions for Offscript, please reach out to [email protected].

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