Below is a list of broadcasts scheduled to air in the next 60 days on any of our three channels.
Theater Talk's 21st Annual Tony Predictions
Jesse Green of New York Magazine, Michael Musto of The Village Voice, and Patrick Pacheco of the LA Times join us to foretell who will win this year's coveted Tony Awards.
27 minutes long
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Cyndi Lauper & Harvey Fierstein Show Off Their Kin
Our guests are composer/lyricist Cyndi Lauper and librettist Harvey Fierstein who created Kinky Boots, the crowd-pleasing new musical. They reveal secrets of their mostly loving collaboration, which resulted in this new Broadway hit.
26 minutes long
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We devote this episode to Matilda, Broadway's new musical (nominated for 12 TONY Awards). Taped the day after the show's Broadway gala opening in April, our guests are librettist Dennis Kelly, composer/lyricist Tim Minchin and actor Bertie Carvel, who plays the terrifying Ms. Trunchbull. All three are TONY nominees for their contributions to this show. Topics include, the key to successful musical theater, the amazing working habits of Roald Dahl (whose 1988 children's classic is the inspiration for their show), and differentiating between Ms. Trunchbull's massive boil and wart. Matilda was originally created as a Christmas show in 2010 for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Back then, "we weren't thinking about dollars," says Minchin. That said, the show was already looking at an approximately $17 million advance, the day after it opened.
26 minutes long
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Nielsen & Hyde Pierce On Vanya and Sonia and Masha
We discuss two of the best new plays this season. First up, we focus on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's madcap yet moving modernization of Chekhov. Actors Kristine Nielsen and David Hyde Pierce tell us about the background of the play, as well as experiences in their careers that led them to star in it on Broadway. Also on the program we talk about Finks, Joe Gilford's powerful look at the impact of the 1950's blacklist, now playing at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Our guests are playwright Gilford and Fink's producer William Carden, Artistic Director of EST. They share the real life background of this drama (called "bracing" according to The New York Times) which is based on the experiences of Gilford's parents, Jack and Madeline Gilford. Both working actors, they were named as Communists by close friends (including Jerome Robbins) in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and subsequently blacklisted.
26 minutes long
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In The Lower Depths With Barbra, Plus On Broadwa
Our guests are actor Michael Urie and playwright Jonathan Tolins of Buyer & Cellar, Tolins's new hit comedy at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, inspired by an unlikely subject, Barbra Streisand's lavish coffee table book, My Passion for Design. In this ingenious and original play, Urie gives a bravura solo performance as the out-of-work actor hired to maintain a private mall of shops Streisand has created for herself in the basement of her barn, containing her vast hoard of fabulous stuff. He spends his days waiting to serve the mall's only customer, Streisand, and then she arrives... Also on the program, we welcome the President of The New York Drama Critics' Circle, Adam Feldman of Time Out New York, and Backstage's Suzy Evans, for a "Broadway Update." As the theater season draws to a close with a "glut" of new openings (15 Tony-eligible shows in the month of April), they survey the terrain and point out the brightest and darkest spots on the horizon.
26 minutes long
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A Conversation With Actor / Playwright Jesse Eisenbe
Writer/performer Jesse Eisenberg joins us to talk about his Off-Broadway play The Revisionist in which he co-stars with Vanessa Redgrave. In a freewheeling conversation, the extraordinarily forthright Eisenberg, discusses how he went from being a kid doing children's theater in Queens, to becoming a celebrated and accomplished dramatist and (Academy Award-nominated) actor, now appearing in his own work opposite one of the world's greatest actresses. At the end of the show, we remember actor Richard Griffiths who died in late March. Griffiths joined us twice on our program, once when he appeared on Broadway in his Tony Award-winning performance in The History Boys, and again two years later with Daniel Radcliffe when they co-starred in Equus. He was a great man and a brilliant entertainer, and we will miss him.
26 minutes long
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Vineyard Theatre's30th Anniversary
We help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vineyard Theatre with actors Linda Lavin and Colman Domingo, as well as the venerated New York City's not-for-profit's Artistic Director, Douglas Aibel. They discuss some of the many notable productions that have originated at this downtown cultural hotspot, including: the Pulitzer Prize winners Three Tall Women and How I Learned to Drive, the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, and Domingo's one-man show, A Boy and His Soul.
26 minutes long
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We focus on the new Broadway musical, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. Joining us are two of its stars, Tony winner Victoria Clark, who plays the Fairy Godmother, and Ann Harada, who has the role of Cinderella's stepsister (whom she emphatically describes as not "mean," but "misguided" and "delusional"). Also on the panel are the show's lead producer Robyn Goodman and dramatist Douglas Carter Beane, who has created a new book for the show, originally written by Oscar Hammerstein II for a 1957 telecast, starring Julie Andrews.
26 minutes long
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Amy Herzog On Belleville and Joe Allen On Rest
We welcome celebrated young playwright Amy Herzog to discuss her new play, Belleville. Herzog talks about the lengthy process it took her to create this work, as well as her other recent stage successes, After the Revolution and 4000 Miles. Next we head to Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to interview legendary restaurateur Joe Allen. Allen opened his eponymous restaurant, Joe Allen, in 1965 on a drug-infested block of the Theater District and by doing so, helped pioneer the highly-successful Restaurant Row, now one of the principle go-to spots for visitors to Broadway.
26 minutes long
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Top Casting Directors Explain It All
Master casting directors James Calleri, Tara Rubin and Bernie Telsey who discuss their important profession as -- in the words of Michael Riedel -- "gatekeepers" to getting parts in theater, television and films. They talk about working with directors and performers to populate the worlds of the varied productions that they represent, and share uplifting casting success stories. They also offer encouragement for aspiring performers, and reveal the number one secret to eventually becoming a working actor.
26 minutes long
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