The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will present an interview with actor and author Eric Bogosian on their weekly theatrical interview show, "Downstage Center," on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28).

Bogosian will appear as the special guest on Friday, March 30 at 6 p.m. The show will repeat on Saturday, March 31 at noon, Sunday, April 1 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, April 4 at midnight.   The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org beginning Monday afternoon, April 2.

Bogosian explains why he left the text of Talk Radio essentially unchanged for its current Broadway revival, but made more significant rewrites in subUrbia for its revival at Second Stage last fall; shares why he was perfectly happy to pass the role of Talk Radio's radio host Barry Champlain on to Liev Schreiber; recalls the genesis of his acclaimed solo shows, including Sex Drugs Rock & Roll and Drinking in America in the 1980s and 90s; and frankly declares why, after a lifelong passion for theatre, he has turned to writing novels.

 

Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and the film adaptation of that play, Talk Radio (NYSF – 1987). For this work he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award. He is also well known for his six solo performances Off-Broadway (Men Inside, FunHouse, Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee) between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie awards. In addition to "Talk Radio", Bogosian has written a number of full-length plays including subUrbia (LCT), Griller (Goodman), Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter). He is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, starring in Robert Altman's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Under Siege II and "Wonderland". He currently stars in "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" on NBC.  A new production of Talk Radio starring Liev Schreiber and directed by Robert Falls, is currently on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre and marks Bogosian's Broadway debut.

 

Each new "Downstage Center" 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 as both streaming audio and podcast on ATW's Web site, www.americantheatrewing.org.  Visit www.xmradio.com for more on XM Satellite Radio.

Photo of Eric Bogosian by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.