Bankside Arts Collective

The Bankside Arts Collective Podcast returns with a limited series featuring conversations with the creative team behind Bankside's latest co-production, John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. In this episode we sit down with both actors and the director of the project. Tickets for DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/danny-and-the-deep-blue-sea...

The Bankside Arts Collective Podcast returns with a limited series featuring conversations with the creative team behind Bankside's latest co-production, John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.  Tickets for DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/danny-and-the-deep-blue-sea-by-john-patrick-shanley-tickets-1982264919736?aff=oddtdtcreator (This podcas...

In this episode The Three Poor Players start, what will certainly be, an ongoing exploration of “immediacy” in the work.  In his book WHAT ACTORS DO, Mike Alfreds describes this search for spontaneity as one of seven paradoxes that actors continually wrestle with. Today, John works with two young artists and experiments with one way in which actors could encounter a text for the first time.  Along...

We start off our full series by exploring the ability to manipulate time! In this first full episode from The Three Poor Players, Chris and his student Kara Reynolds introduce us to a simple yet powerful way to bend time in such a way as to give the actor a whole host of options.  Who wouldn't want to get in on that action? Our thanks to Kara Reynolds for her most excellent work and, as always to...

Welcome back to the Bankside Arts Collective podcast and the second "Inside The Dumb Waiter" episode! It’s opening week for The Dumb Waiter and today we get to speak at length with Riley Capp, who is playing Gus in our production.  Before we get to today’s episode I just want to remind everyone that the first full episode of Three Poor Players will be dropping next week - The Three Poor Players Pl...

Take a look inside The Dumb Waiter! Bankside Repertory Theatre returns to the stage for the first time since the summer of summer of 2022 with Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. We decided to take a look behind the scenes a bit as the show gets closer to its October 2 opening. In today’s episode actors Riley Capp and John O'Hagan chat about the show, and some of the things that have caught their att...

We’re really excited to finally be launching this new series  - The Three Poor Players.  This episode today gives Jason, Chris, and me a chance to introduce ourselves and give kind of a 30,000 foot view of what we hope this series will be and do. Each of us are theatre makers  - actors, directors and teachers - with nearly 50 years of experiecne between the 3 of us. And over the years, regardless...

We have arrived at the last in our series of conversations with tthe founding members of Bankside Repertory Theatre.  Today, the subject of our first interview, Geoff Callaway, returns and flips the mics around to interview your’s truly. www.johnjohagan.com BONUS - if you listen closely -  towards the end of this chat you’ll hear the first public announcement of Bankside’s upcoming fall production...

The fourth episode in our five part series talking with the founding members of Bankside Repertory Theatre. John chats with Sue Ellen Coughtry  - from "Suzy Cream Cheese" to Miss Julie -  Sue Ellen's trajectory is a fascinating listen and I'm sure we barely scrape the tip of the iceberg! Keep an eye on our website for information on our upcoming fall production and as always we welcome any and all...

In this third installment of our 5 part series talking with the founding members of Bankside Repertory Theatre, John O'Hagan sits down with Chrissy Calkins-Steele and we find out how early childhood experiences continue to inform Chrissy's artistic path as well as what's behind Chrissy's deep and abiding love of the process. Keep an eye on our website for information on our upcoming fall productio...

The second in our 5 part series chatting with the founding members of Bankside Repertory Theatre - today actor, director, production manager extraordinaire! - Caleb King. And host John O'Hagan recommends another podcast series: Hear Me Out with Lucy Eaton  - An amazing journey into some incredible speeches from amazing plays with fantastically talented actors. If there is a topic you'd like to sug...

We're excited to launch this new series of discussions with the founding members of Bankside Repertory Theatre and Bankside Arts Collective. Today we're sitting down with playwright, actor, director, and teacher Geoff Callaway who has written, directed and performed for Bankside Rep as well as many other companies. Please take a moment to rate and review us so that others can find their way to the...

Happy Christmas from all of us at Bankside Arts Collective. Gather some loved ones this evening and listen to the full, uninteruppted version of Geoff Calloway's "A Dickens of a Tale". A warm and witty retelling of the holiday classic.

Our memorial service concludes with reminecses from Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's former cleaning lady, and the most unlikely of champion Prize fighters. The final part of this warm and witty retelling of the holiday classic. (Look for a special episode coming Christmas Eve!) 

Our memorial for Ebeneezer Scrooge continues as we hear from Mrs. Fezziwig, Ebeneezer's lost love Belle, and the "Turkey Boy". Part two of this warm and witty retelling of the holiday classic. (Episode 3 drops Friday 12.22.23)

Ten years after his life changing Christmas, Ebeneezer Scrooge has passed on. A host of familiar faces gather to share their thoughts on his passing. A warm and witty retelling of the holiday classic. (Episode 2 drops Wednesday 12.20.23)

Bankside Repertory Theatre proudly presents Geoff Calloway’s A Dickens of a Tale. A warm and funny contemporary reflection on Charles Dickens’ classic novella and the real meaning of Christmas. Join this memorial service for Ebeneezer Scrooge, 10 years after his miraculous conversion.” Coming soon from Bankside Arts Collective