THEATER TALK to Welcome SKYLIGHT's David Hare & Stephen Daldry

In an all-new THEATER TALK, David Hare and Stephen Daldry - author and director of Skylight - talk about the Broadway revival of Hare's romantic drama. The play, which is about the passionate relationship between a rich businessman and a poor schoolteacher who has consigned herself to public service, first ran on Broadway in 1996 and is considered one of Hare's best and a classic of modern British drama.

This revival of Skylight just received six Tony® Award-nominations: Best Play Revival, Best Director for Daldry, Best Lighting, as well as acting nominations for the play's entire company: Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan and Matthew Beard.

Hare tells the series co-hosts, Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins, that he has turned down requests to revive Skylight for the past 15 years, before trusting Daldry with it, who created has this interpretation which Hare considers, "one of the most 'finished' productions of my plays." It opened in London in 2014 and was quickly slated for a move to Broadway, where it has received enthusiastic reviews. In addition to his Tony nomination, Stephen Daldry also is being honored by The Drama League with its Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.

The new edition of THEATER TALK premieres in the New York metropolitan area on Friday, May 1 (2015) at 1 AM (early Saturday morning) on PBS/Thirteen with repeats on CUNY TV * Saturday 5/2 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 5/3 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 5/4 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM.

*CUNY TV, the City University of New York television station, is broadcast over-the-air in the New York metropolitan area on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the 5 boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN), and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS). The program is also available online at www.cuny.tv and www.theatertalk.org, and via iTunes podcasts.

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