Theater Talk Presents Healy, Mann and 'Party Animals'

By: Apr. 13, 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.

Legendary Producer TEd Mann, plus Patrick Healy of the NY Times

on Thirteen:
Friday, April 16th at 1:00 AM

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, reporter Patrick Healy of The New York Times, who discusses tactics of covering the theater beat with our own Michael Riedel of the New York Post.

Bob Hofler on Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, April 17th at 8:30 PM
Sunday, April 18th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, April 19th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 AM

Author Robert Hofler of Variety discusses his new biography about the the amazing life and career of Allan Carr, producer of La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway, the movies Grease, and Can't Stop the Music, plus the most outrageous and scandalously unsuccessful awards ceremony in Oscar history. Hofler describes how Carr, an oddball kid from Highland Park, Il., rose to the height of success in show business and ultimately was reduced to being a recluse shunned by Hollywood until his untimely death.

Robert Osborne, Film Expert and TCM Host

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.



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