It's easy for the audience: buy a ticket to a play, and take a seat and watch it. But oh, the work that goes on to put that play on stage.
Bunches of people with many different talents work in the theater business, and Evalyn Hansen has either done their jobs or talked to them about the work.
Hansen, herself a theater pro, has interviewed hundreds of people in the theater industry, many of them at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. She's compiled some of the best in the book Backstage with Evalyn Hansen. The author visits the JX to talk about some highlights of more than 300 separate interviews.
Correction note: Brandy Carson performed in "Waiting for Godot," with Shirley Patton, not Brady Rubin as mentioned in the interview.