Theater Talk Presents Stiller, Gersten & Turan on Joe Papp & Public Theater

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.

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

Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
on Thirteen:
Friday, August 13th at 12:30 AM

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, August 14th at 8:30 PM
Sunday, August 15th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, August 16th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, & 7:30 PM

We discuss the legacy of NYC's Public Theater and its founder, Joseph Papp with actor Jerry Stiller; Lincoln Center Executive Producer (and former Papp lieutenant) Bernard Gersten and critic Kenneth Turan, the author of the just-released book Free For All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told, an oral history of the ground-breaking not-for-profit institution.

KUCHWARA Tribute
and The Aughts in Review
on Thirteen:
Friday, August 20th at 12:30 AM

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, August 21st at 8:30 PM
Sunday, August 22nd at 12:30 PM and
Monday, August 23rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM

We remember our friend Mike Kuchwara, the drama critic of the Associated Press, who died last May, with a repeat of our favorite of the many appearances Mike made on Theater Talk. The segment, from December 2008, which we called "Critics in Decline," also includes journalists John Heilpern and Jacques le Sourd and concerns the diminishing role that drama critics are playing in the new world of journalism.

Also on the program, a lively review of the past decade on Broadway with Jesse Green, Patrick Pacheco and Michael Musto.

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