Theater Talk Announces Robert Osborne, Theodore Mann & More, Begins 4/23

By: Apr. 20, 2010
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Theater Talk, the series devoted to the world of the stage, is co-hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post and series producer Susan Haskins.

Robert Osborne: Our Favorite Motion Picture Maven

on Thirteen:
Friday, April 23rd at 1:00 AM

Film historian, and Turner Classic Movies host, Robert Osborne discusses some of his favorite (and least favorite) films about the theater and the talented people who created them. Topics include All About Eve, Joseph Mankiewicz, George Sanders, A Chorus Line, Rosalind Russell, Lucille Ball, and The Bad Seed.

Producer Theodore Mann, plus Patrick Healy of the NY Times

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, April 24th at 8:30 PM
Sunday, April 25th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, April 26th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM

A conversation with producer Theodore Mann, who virtually began the Off-Broadway movement in the 1950's with his productions of Tennessee William's Summer and Smoke, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and other classic productions. Mann, author of the recently published memoir Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theater with Circle in the Square, was also instrumental in reintroducing O'Neill to a new generation of theater-goers, which helped to reestablish O'Neill's legacy as one of America's all-time greatest playwrights.

Also on the show, Broadway reporter Patrick Healy of The New York Times, compares and contrasts styles and tactics of covering the theater beat with co-host Michael Riedel, Broadway reporter of the New York Post.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and
The West End Whingers

on Thirteen:
Friday, April 30th at 1:00 AM

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, May 1st at 8:30 PM
Sunday, May 2nd at 12:30 PM and
Monday, May 3rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM

First up, writer/director Alex Timbers and composer/lyricist Michael Friedman discuss their downtown hit Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, an "emo" musical about the seventh President of the United States: "Populism, yeah! Yeah!"

Next, a visit from the British critics Mark Shenton, the reviewer of London's Sunday Express and writer of a daily blog for The Stage, and the notorious West End Whingers, Phil and Andrew (no last names please), the infamous UK bloggers. Now visiting Broadway (and stranded here by the volcano), they review The Addams Family, Next to Normal, and more.



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