Martha Plimpton Interviewed on 'Downstage Center,' 6/30

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will present an interview with Martha Plimpton on their weekly theatrical interview show, "Downstage Center," on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28). Plimpton will appearas the special guest on Friday, June 30 at 6 p.m. The show will repeat on Saturday, July 1 at noon, Sunday, July 2 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, July 5 at midnight.

Currently appearing as 'Neasa' in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Conor McPherson's Shining City, Plimpton will be part of the ensemble of the Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia this fall.

Additional Broadway credits include Sixteen Wounded at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Off-Broadway: Hobson's Choice (Atlantic Theater Co., 2001 Obie Award); Boston Marriage, Pericles, The Haggadah, Runaways (NYSF); subUrbia (LCT); Flesh and Blood (NYTW). Regionally, she has appeared in The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosensweig, Uncle Vanya, Robbers (Seattle Rep.); Absolution (Director), The Glass Menagerie, The Libertine (Steppenwolf); Playboy of the Western World, Hedda Gabler (Steppenwolf and Long Wharf); member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Film credits inlcude Hair High (also co-producer), The Sleepy Time Gal, 200 Cigarettes, Beautiful Girls, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Another Woman, Eye of God, Parenthood, I Shot Andy Warhol, Pecker, Running on Empty, Stanley and Iris, The Mosquito Coast, The Goonies, River Rat, Shy People, and Stars and Bars.

Each new "Downstage Center" program is regularly broadcast at 6 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays at noon, Sundays at 7 p.m. and Wednesdays at 12 a.m. (all times EST). Following the initial run on XM, each program is made available for free, on-demand, internationally on ATW's website, www.americantheatrewing.org.