THEATER TALK to Welcome SKYLIGHT's Tony Nominees This Weekend

In an all-new THEATER TALK, the Tony®-nominated stars of David Hare's romantic drama Skylight - Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan - talk about the acclaimed revival, in which they performed previously on the West End and have followed to Broadway this Spring. They share Skylight Tony nominations with fellow actor Matthew Beard, as well as playwright Hare, director Stephen Daldry, and Natasha Katz for Best Lighting.

The actors tell co-hosts Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins about their characters, former lovers who had a six-year adulterous affair. ("He's appalling," says Nighy of Tom Sergeant, a self-made millionaire; "She's a school teacher in a tough London neighborhood, who has rejected her past lifestyle," says Mulligan of Kyra Hollis; "He seeks to get her back," counters Nighy.).

Nighy believes Skylight to be "one of the greatest plays in the English language - it will be performed 200 years from now. It's a great entertainment perfectly integrated into a love story." The duo also discuss their backgrounds in the theater. Nighy confesses he never thought about being an actor ("I never went to the theater at all"), but he became smitten with a girl who was headed for drama school, and the rest is history. Mulligan, however, knew at age 14, visiting New York with her mother and seeing Cabaret with Alan Cumming, that she wanted to act.

Next up, our roving correspondents AndrewAndrew visit the TONY AWARDS "Meet and Greet" (held the day after the nominations were announced) and talk to talented and ecstatic candidates including Robert Askins, Steven Boyer, Kristin Chenoweth, William Ivey Long, Alessandro Nivola, Carey Mulligan (encore) and Julie White.

This episode of THEATER TALK premieres in the New York metropolitan area on Friday, May 15 (2015) at 1 AM (early Saturday morning) on PBS/Thirteen with repeats on CUNY TV * Saturday 5/16 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 5/17 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 5/18 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM.

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