Tazewell Thompson's guest appearances

Tazewell Thompson

The Indie Opera Podcast

Voice of the Arts

Art Works Podcast

Malcolm J. Merriweather

Craig Wright

John Adams

Kevin Young

Nicholson Baker

Jake Gyllenhaal

Tracy K. Smith

Rick Sebak

Sarah Ruhl

Danielle Evans

Lynn Nottage

Josh Ritter

Michael Berry

Sebastian Junger

Jacob Lawrence

OwlTail

Pittsburgh Opera concludes it's 2021-2022 Season with the powerful opera "Blue" at the August Wilson African-America Cultural Center April 23rd through May 1st.  WQED-FM's Anna Singer spoke with the librettist and Stage Director Tazewell Thompson about background of the opera, his eagerness to return to Pittsburgh after having great success with one of his plays at City Theater, working with Glimmerglass Opera to write the opera and more.

Tazewell Thompson - Pittsburgh Opera's "Blue"

Jeanine Tesori

Jeanine and Tazewell talk about their collaboration and the genesis BLUE, a story about police violence and it’s affect on one family, the opera takes its influence from current events as well as Tazewell’s own experiences as a black man in the world today.We also hear about Jeanine's collaboration with David Henry Hwang on their “play with a musical” Soft Power that ran in Los Angeles and San Francisco last year, and Tazewell's new show Jubilee about the Fisk Jubilee Singers which will have its premiere at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C.

Jeanine and Tazewell talk about their collaboration and the genesis BLUE, a story about police violence and it’s affect on one family, the opera takes its influence from current events as well as Tazewell’s own experiences as a black man in the world today. We also hear about Jeanine's collaboration with David Henry Hwang on their “play with a musical” Soft Power that ran in Los Angeles and San Francisco last year, and Tazewell's new show Jubilee about the Fisk Jubilee Singers which will have its premiere at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C.

Podcast 059: Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson

Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director and playwright.

Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director and playwright.