TheaterTalk Announces Critics Retrospective & Kuchwara Tribute

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 (pictured here with Marian Seldes).

For clips and highlights from the show, please visit https://www.youtube.com/user/theatertalk.

This Week on Thirteen... Critics' Spring Retrospective on Thirteen: Friday, July 2nd at 12:30 AM

Top drama critics Joe Dziemianowicz of The Daily News, Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, John Simon of Bloomberg News and Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post review some of the latest productions on Broadway, including Red, Race, Fences, Promises Promises, and American Idiot.

Also, a report by AndrewAndrew from the rain-soaked Tony Awards Red Carpet.

This Week on CUNY TV... Remembering Mike Kuchwara, plus the Aughts in Review on CUNY TV:
Saturday, July 3rd at 8:30 PM
Sunday, July 4th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, July 5th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, & 7:30 PM

In tribute to our colleague and friend Michael Kuchwara, the revered longtime critic of the Associated Press who died on May 22, 2010 at the age of 63, we present an encore of our December 2008 panel about the decline of the role of the critic featuring Kuchwara and his fellow critics John Heilpern, then of the New York Observer (now at Vanity Fair) and Jacques LeSourd, of WCBS Radio. This program was taped the week that LeSourd was laid off from his drama critic's job of 35 years at Gannett newspapers (he was not replaced) and they discussed the diminishing influence of drama critics in our society.

Also this week, we look back at the previous decade with Jesse Green of New York Magazine, Michael Musto of The Village Voice, and Patrick Pacheco of the Los Angeles Times. They discuss the highlights, lowlights, and significance of the works presented on Broadway between 2000 and 2009.