Theater Talk Announces Spring Broadway Preview With Musto and Green & More In Upcoming Episodes

Theater Talk is the TV series featuring in-depth conversations with actors, directors, writers and others working in the New York theater. The show is co-hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post, and the show's Executive Producer, Susan Haskins, and is jointly produced by Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV, the station of The City University of New York.

This Week...
Episode #314
Spring Broadway Preview

Theater journalists Jesse Green of New York Magazine, Michael Musto of The Village Voice and Patrick Pacheco of the Los Angeles Times look forward to what is coming to Broadway this spring, including The Addams Family Musical, American Idiot, The Million Dollar Quartet, Abigail Breslin in The Miracle Worker, and Twyla Tharp's new musical based on the songs of Frank Sinatra. Youtube Preview (Uplink available January 28.)

Episode #315
Broadway Producers and
The Orphan's Home Cycle

Producers Jeffrey Seller (In the Heights, Avenue Q) and Thomas Viertel (A Little Night Music, The Producers) discuss the resiliency of Broadway during the Recession and how the Internet has rapidly changed the way shows are marketed.

Also, a brief conversation with playwright Horton Foote and his daughter, actress Hallie Foote, about Foote's nine-play/three-part epic The Orphans' Home Cycle, which he was adapting into a three-night theatrical event for The Hartford Stage Company right before he died in March, 2009. This interview, taped in November 2008, was one of the last that the eminent playwright ever gave. (Uplink available February 4.)

Coming February 11...
Episode #316
A View from the Bridge

Actor Liev Schreiber and director Gregory Mosher talk about their collaboration on reviving Arthur Miller's 1955 tragedy A View from the Bridge. This production, in which Schreiber stars with Scarlett Johansson, has just opened on Broadway to great critical acclaim.

John Lahr of The New Yorker wrote, "[A View from the Bridge] deftly directed by Gregory Mosher, at the Cort, is a singular astonishment: a kind of theatrical lightning bolt that sizzles and startles at the same time, illuminating the poetry in the play's prose and the subtlety in its streamlined construction." (Uplink available February 11.)