THE ORPHAN'S HOME CYCLE, Liev Schreiber & More Set For Theater Talk

Theater Talk is the TV series featuring in-depth conversations with actors, directors, writers
and others working in the New York theater. The show is co-hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post, and the show's Executive Producer, Susan Haskins, and is jointly produced by Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV, the station of
The City University of New York.

Episode #315
Broadway Producers and
The Orphan's Home Cycle

Producers Jeffrey Seller (In the Heights, Avenue Q) and Thomas Viertel (A Little Night Music, The Producers) discuss the resiliency of Broadway during the Recession and how the Internet has rapidly changed the way shows are marketed.

Also, a brief conversation with playwright Horton Foote and his daughter, actress Hallie Foote, about Foote's nine-play/three-part epic The Orphans' Home Cycle, which he was adapting into a three-night theatrical event for The Hartford Stage Company right before he died in March, 2009. This interview, taped in November 2008, was one of the last that the eminent playwright ever gave. (Uplink available February 4.)

Episode #316
A View from the Bridge

Actor Liev Schreiber and director Gregory Mosher talk about their collaboration on reviving Arthur Miller's 1955 tragedy A View from the Bridge. This production, in which Schreiber stars with Scarlett Johansson, has just opened on Broadway to great critical acclaim.

John Lahr of The New Yorker wrote, "[A View from the Bridge] deftly directed by Gregory Mosher, at the Cort, is a singular astonishment: a kind of theatrical lightning bolt that sizzles and startles at the same time, illuminating the poetry in the play's prose and the subtlety in its streamlined construction." (Uplink available February 11.)

Episode #317
Time Stands Still's Margulies and Bogosian

Playwright Donald Margulies and actor/playwright Eric Bogosian (Law & Order CI) discuss Margulies' politically-relevant (and critically acclaimed) drama, Time Stands Still, in which Bogosian is appearing on Broadway with Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James and Alicia Silverstone. (Uplink available February 18.)

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 executive producer Susan Haskins.