Restaurant Theater & Travel Show Airs Drama Desk Nominee Interviews 5/15, 5/21

By: May. 11, 2009
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The Restaurant Theater and Travel Show hosted by Ira Kleinman is pleased to announce two special programs on May 15th and May 21st recorded at The Drama Desk Awards Nominee Party at Il Bastardo Restuarant in N.Y.C. Ira Kleinman and his co-host for this event Jeannie Lieberman of TheaterScene.Net present a montage of interviews with Broadway's brightest stars. Interviewed guests include Drama Desk Award nominees Jane Fonda (33 Variations), Geoffrey Rush (Exit The King), Raul Esparza (Speed The Plow), Brian d'Arcy (Shrek The Musical), Mark Kudish (9 to 5), and playwright Lynn Nottage (Ruined). Ira also interviews the cast of the acclaimed Broadway hit comedy The Norman Conquests.

For more information on the Drama Desk Awards, please go to: www.dramadesk.com

The Restaurant Theater and Travel Show airs Fridays from 2 to 2:30 pm on WVNJ 1160 AM in Oakland New Jersey. It's 20,00 watts covers all the northern New York suburbs including Bergen, Rockland, Westchester, Fairfield, and Nassau Counties. The show is streamed live Fridays at 2pm on WVNJ.COM. The show rotates between interviews with theater stars, major chefs discussing their culinary secrets, and broadcasting from great travel destinations where hotel mangers, spa directors, and leaders in the travel industry inform The Audience on great getaways around the globe. Recent shows were broadcast from Los Cabos Mexico, Cancun, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Jamaica.

Ira Kleinman born and raised in the Big Apple, has a broad range of experience and deep connections to the world of media. From 1968-1974, Ira was Director of Channel 7's Eyewitness News in New York City. Afterwards, he worked with Warner Brothers Television in their Programming Sales department. In 1978, Ira went on to become the Sales Manager for Talk Radio WMCA 570 AM in New York. in 1988, he was brought in to run WFAS Radio and WXPS FM (both in Westchester County). In 1996 - and ever since - Ira has hosted his own radio programs. First, the acclaimed "Weekend at the Waldorf, Live from Grand Central" and currently " The Restaurant Theater and Travel Radio Show."

Ira Kleinman is a Drama Desk theater critic.

 



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