THEATER TALK to Feature 'Best of 2015' This Weekend

THEATER TALK presents "The Best of 2015," featuring some favorite interviews from the past year. Up first, is the creative team from Hand to God, the hit Broadway comedy about a teen attending a Christian puppet-making workshop in Texas, whose sock-puppet seems to be possessed by Satan. Guests are playwright Robert Askins, director Moritz von Stuelpnagel and actor Steven Boyer (along with the outspoken puppet, Tyrone).

Next up, Dame Helen Mirren, award-winning star of the spring's box-office bonanza The Audience, shares a few wise sentiments on fame. The half-hour concludes with Fun Home, the Tony® Award-winning musical, with composer Jeanine Tesori and book writer/lyricist Lisa Kron, who created this masterpiece based on the bestselling memoir/graphic novel by the segment's other guest, cartoonist Alison Bechdel. The trio discuss their collaboration on the show with Tesori and Kron performing a few songs from the Tony-winning score.

THEATER TALK is co hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post, and Susan Haskins. This episode premieres in the New York metropolitan area on CUNY TV* Saturday 12/5 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 12/6 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 12/7 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM; and on WLIW/21 on Monday 12/7 at 5:30 PM - a total of 6 times this week. (THEATER TALK is preempted on Thirteen for Pledge Drive.)

THEATER TALK is jointly produced by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The program is taped in the Himan Brown TV and Radio Studios at City University of New York (CUNY) TV in Manhattan, and is distributed to 100+ participating public television stations nationwide. THEATER TALK is made possible in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The CUNY TV Foundation and The Friends of THEATER TALK.