”John Schwab talks about how Curtain Call the book (left) has become Curtain Call the online community, a place for theatre professionals and fans where the shows live on after they close, built for theatre people by theatre people. Featuring celebration and connection, weird love children that catch the theatre bug, Read more…
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”Long-time RSC actor John Schwab and photographer Matt Humphrey have created the beautiful new book Curtain Call, an invaluable collection of photographs and interviews celebrating the amazing variety of London theatre in the year 2015. The book is both a handsome collectible and an invaluable piece of theatre journalism, and John talks about Read more…
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”RSC Company Manager Alli Bostedt and RSC UK actor John Schwab are joined by our old friend Bill Chott (left) as they describe their professional and personal encounters with the late great Alan Rickman. Featuring brushes with greatness, missed opportunities, surprising kindness, spoiler gestures, annoying extras, enormous talent, imperious fingers, shout-outs to Galaxy Read more…
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”LIVE! From Reston, VA, comes Part Two of our excerpts from the evening of Lost Works from The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza. Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor welcome RSC alumni Matt Croke and Dee Ryan as they discuss Dalek-y voices, lost jerks, the mystery of the Read more…
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”A veteran of stage, film, television, radio (and us!), London-based American actor John Schwab talks about living, working, surviving, and thriving in Britain. Featuring gray areas; White House stints; the complicated nature of Hollywood financing; discreet voice doubling; and tales of sharing the stage with (or replacing) Claire Bloom, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Read more…
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Star of stage and screens both large and small Olivia Williams (left, in The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis) talks to RSC UK member John Schwab about what it’s like to work with such writer/director/auteurs such as Neil LaBute (In A Forest Dark and Deep), M. Night Shymalan (The Sixth Sense), Wes Anderson Read more…
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”RSC actor turned big-shot movie producer John Schwab talks about the journey he took from London’s Criterion Theatre to the Berlin Film Festival. Featuring the story of The Hide, and tips on How To Get Started, How To Exploit Your Friends, and How To Take Experience And Passion In One Read more…
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”Things We Love this week — a story of the RSC and Young Love in Ireland; the television premiere of a feature film produced by RSC alumni John Schwab and Tim Beckman; and Dee Ryan returns to the Pittsburgh Public Theater with her one-woman show DeeConstruction. Happy VD! (MP3. Length Read more…
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