'Broadway Talks' at 92Y Hosts Schreiber, Lane, Linney & Hayes this Spring

92nd Street Y and Jujamcyn Theaters will present a series of conversations entitled "Broadway Talks," featuring some of today's biggest Broadway stars, throughout the spring. The talks will be held as one-on-one conversations with Jujamcyn President, Jordan Roth, and will take place on four separate occasions from March to May. Currently scheduled for talks are Liev Schrieber, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, and Sean Hayes.

The discussion series will begin on March 1st with Schrieber, star of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. The talks will continue on March 28th with TIME STANDS STILL star Laura Linney, May 23rd with THE ADDAMS FAMILY star Nathan Lane, and, finally, on May 24th with PROMISES PROMISES star Sean Hayes.

Conversations with Schreiber, Linney, and Lane will take place at Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street and the Hayes converstaion will take place at 92YTribeca.

"Broadway is such a major force in New York City's cultural landscape and we are thrilled to have Jordan Roth headline this series of conversations on our stage," said Susan Engel, Lectures Director at the 92nd Street Y, the cultural and community center known for its wide-ranging talks and dialogues with the world's most important artists, thinkers and leaders. "Jordan Roth is the perfect person for this series because of his passion and insightfulness. He truly represents ‘the new Broadway.'"

Sean Hayes made his New York stage debut in DAMN YANKEES at City Center Encores. His films include The Bucket List, Pieces of April, The cat in the Hat (as the voice of the Fish), Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, and Cats and Dogs (as the voice of Mr. Tinkles). He has won four Screen Actors Guild Awards, a TV Guide Award and an American Comedy Award. Hayes won an Emmy (and was nominated six times) for his portrayal of Jack on Will & Grace. He starred as Jerry Lewis in the television movie "Martin & Lewis."

Nathan Lane. Broadway: Present Laughter (Drama Desk nom.), Merlin, The Wind in the Willows, Some Americans Abroad, On Borrowed Time, Guys and Dolls (Tony nom., Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier Awards), The Frogs, The Odd Couple, Butley, November and Waiting For Godot (Outer Critics Circle nom.). Off-B'way: 1992 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. Credits include Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (Drama Desk nom.); Trumbo; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Measure for Measure (Bayfield Award); Luv, the Musical; She Stoops to Conquer; The Common Pursuit; The Film Society; Mizlansky/Zilinsky; In a Pig's Valise; The Lisbon Traviata (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards); Bad Habits; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion! (Obie Award) and Do Re Mi at Encores! Television: Five Emmy noms., two Emmy Awards and a People's Choice Award. More than 30 films including The Birdcage (Golden Globe nom., Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy Awards), Ironweed, Frankie and Johnny, Mousehunt, Jeffrey, The Lion King, Stuart Little, Nicholas Nickleby (National Board of Review Ensemble Acting Award), Swing Vote and The Producers (Golden Globe nom.). Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and recently inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. This spring Lane will star as ‘Gomez Addams' in the world premiere musical The Addams Family.

Laura Linney made her off-Broadway debut at MTC during the 1991-1992 season in John Patrick Shanley's Beggars in the House of Plenty. That same season she created the role of "Grete" in MTC's premiere of Margulies' Sight Unseen. Twelve years later, Lynne Meadow asked her to play the lead role of "Patricia" in the MTC Broadway Revival of Sight Unseen, directed by Daniel Sullivan, for which she received a Tony nomination. Linney has a special relationship with Donald Margulies, MTC and Daniel Sullivan.

Liev Schreiber was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Barry Champlain in Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, directed by Robert Fall and received the award for his performance in David Mamet's Glengarry GLen Ross, directed by Joe Mantello. Other stage work: Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park, directed by Moisés Kaufman). Film/TV: Taking Woodstock, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Defiance, The Painted Veil, "Lackawanna Blues," The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, The Hurricane, Hamlet, "RKO 281" (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Spring Forward, A Walk on the Moon, Mixed Nuts, "The Sunshine Boys," and the Scream trilogy. Upcoming: Salt, Repossession Mambo, Every Day. Documentary narration work includes: Mantle, :03 Seconds from Gold, and A City on Fire: The Story of the 68 Detroit Tigers; the series Nova and Nature. Schreiber made his directorial debut with Everything is Illuminated. Adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel, the film received special recognition for excellence in filmmaking by the National Board of Review.

Tickets for "Broadway Talks at 92Y" are $27 and may be purchased online at www.92Y.org or by calling the 92Y box office 212.415.5500.

The 92nd Street Y is about people. The people of New York City and the surrounding area. The people of the United States and of the world. It's about people who entertain and challenge, inform and educate. It's about people who learn and discover, observe and participate.

The 92nd Street Y operates in the context of a history that spans over 133 years. Founded in 1874 as the Young Men's Hebrew Association where Jewish men could find harmony and good fellowship, the 92nd Street Y today has evolved into a world-renowned community and cultural center, an organization of exhilarating vitality and remarkable diversity, a proudly Jewish institution that reaches out to people of every race, ethnicity, religion, age and economic class.

For more information, visit www.92Y.org.

Photo Credit (from top): Linda Lenzi, Walter McBride, Pablo Pimienta, Linda Lenzi