DVR Alert: Aaron Tveit, Laura Linney Head to This Week's LATE SHOW on CBS

CBS has announced that Laura Linney will stop by tonight's LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. As BWW reported this week, Linney and Cynthia Nixon will star in Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Lillian Hellman's THE LITTLE FOXES, to be directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. The show will also feature a musical performance by Gary Clark Jr.

On Thursday, June 9 Patrick Wilson joins inventor Simone Giertz on the late night show. Wilson most recently appeared on Broadway in the 2008 revival of ALL MY SONS.

Aaron Tveit (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, GREASE LIVE!) will visit the show on Friday, June 10th to talk about his new CBS series BRAINDEAD, co-starring Broadway's Nikki M. James. David Duchovny and juggler Alexander Koblikov will also appear.

Be sure to set your DVR's. BWW will bring you video from all the appearances as soon as it becomes available!

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT premiered on Tuesday, Sept. 8 on CBS.The show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.

A multi-talented and respected host, writer, producer, satirist and comedian, Colbert is well-known for his previous late night show, "The Colbert Report," which concluded on Friday, Dec. 18, 2014. The program received wide-spread critical acclaim and earned two Peabody Awards and 29 Emmy Award nominations, including two Emmy wins for Outstanding Variety Series (2013, 2014) and four Emmy wins for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program (2008, 2010, 2013, 2014). Prior to that, Colbert spent eight years as a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as an on-air personality and writer of news satire for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series.

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