Richard Maxwell in Conversation with Philip Bither
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Channel: Walker Art Center · 2015 · Education
Richard Maxwell, New York City Players Artistic Director and playwright, talks with Walker senior curator Philip Bither about his upper Midwestern roots, fiction and reality, actor training, power of the collective will, stage violence and the essential role of theater in 21st Century America. Maxwell’s newest Walker-commissioned work, The Evening, the start of a new trilogy of Maxwell works, premiered at the Walker on January 8, 2015, as part of the Out There series.
