Theater Talk Announces BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON & More

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.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The West End Whingers

on Thirteen:
Friday, April 30th at 1:00 AM

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, May 1st at 8:30 PM
Sunday, May 2nd at 12:30 PM and
Monday, May 3rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM

First up, writer/director Alex Timbers and composer/lyricist Michael Friedman discuss their downtown hit Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, an "emo" musical about the seventh President of the United States: "Populism, yeah! Yeah!"

Next, a visit from the British critics Mark Shenton, the reviewer of London's Sunday Express and writer of a daily blog for The Stage, and the notorious West End Whingers, Phil and Andrew (no last names please), the infamous UK bloggers. Now visiting Broadway, they review The Addams Family, Next to Normal, and more.

Coming Up Next Week...
Don't Want to Be an American Idiot

on Thirteen:
Friday, May 7th at 1:00 AM

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, May 8th at 8:30 PM
Sunday, May 9th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, May 10th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM

We sit down with Billie Joe Armstrong, composer and lyricist of Broadway's new smash hit American Idiot, based on the best-selling album he created with his band Green Day. He is joined by director Michael Mayer, who had the vision to transform American Idiot from a rock opera into a critically acclaimed musical for the stage.

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