THEATER TALK to Host Fall Preview 2016 with Critics Pacheco, Musto & Green

Journalists Jesse Green (the theater critic at New York Magazine), Michael Musto (Out, The Advocate, Paper & LogoTV) and Patrick Pacheco (ArtInfo.com and the Los Angeles Times) are back once again with THEATER TALK co-hosts Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins for a preview of the Fall 2016 theater season which, due to a heavy number of revivals, Riedel introduces as "Broadway 1991."

The Fall Preview 2016 edition of THEATER TALK premieres in the New York City metropolitan area Friday, October 7 (2016) on PBS station Thirteen/WNET at 1:30 AM (early Saturday morning) and repeats there on Sunday 10/9 at 11:30 AM; it re-airs on CUNY TV* Saturday 10/8 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 10/9 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 10/10 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM; and also airs on WLIW/21 on Monday 10/10 at 5:30 PM and on WNYE/25 on Monday 10/10 at 3:30 PM - 9 NYC showings weekly.

In a fast-paced half-hour - amid spirited opinion about newspapers, theater critics, criticism, and the makeup of the current Broadway audience - the panel discusses upcoming Broadway shows including A Bronx Tale; The Cherry Orchard; Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; The Encounter; Falsettos; The Front Page; Groundhog Day; Heisenberg; Holiday Inn; In Transit; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; and Oh, Hello on Broadway. Off-Broadway mentions include The Band's Visit, Richard Nelson's The Election Plays, Othello with David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig, Party People, Plenty, Stuffed with Lisa Lampanelli, Sweat by Lynn Nottage, Sweet Charity with Sutton Foster - and a Stephen Sondheim musical currently in development.

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 The 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.

*CUNY TV, the City University of New York television station, is broadcast in the NYC metropolitan area on digital Ch. 25.3 and cablecast in the city's five boroughs on Ch. 75 (Time Warner & Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN), and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS). THEATER TALK episodes are available online anytime at www.cuny.tv and www.theatertalk.org and via iTunes.

Pictured: Patrick Pacheco, Michael Musto, & Jesse Green (image courtesy Theater Talk Prod. Inc. & CUNY TV)