THEATER TALK to Air Edward Albee Tribute This Friday

THEATER TALK pays tribute to playwright Edward Albee with a compilation episode that includes highlights from two of the playwright's interviews on the series, one from 2003, the other from 2007.

Albee, who died September 16, 2016, discusses his early days as an aspiring writer in Greenwich Village, his first success with The Zoo Story, and the ideas behind later works such as The American Dream, Three Tall Women, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and his sequel to The Zoo Story, Peter and Jerry, written over four decades after the original.

Co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins, this episode premieres Friday, Sept. 23 (2016) on PBS station Thirteen/WNET at 1:30 AM (Saturday morning) and repeats there on Sunday 9/25 at 11:30 AM; it reairs on CUNY TV* Saturday 9/24 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 9/25 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 9/26 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM; and also airs on WLIW/21 on Monday 9/26 at 5:30 PM and on WNYE/25 on Monday, 9/26 at 3:30 PM.

THEATER TALK is jointly produced by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The program is taped in the Himan Brown TV and Radio Studios at The City University of New York (CUNY) TV in Manhattan, and is distributed to 100+ participating public television stations nationwide. THEATER TALK is made possible in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The CUNY TV Foundation, and The Friends of THEATER TALK.

*CUNY TV, the City University of New York television station, is broadcast in the NYC metropolitan area on digital Ch. 25.3 and cablecast in the city's five boroughs on Ch. 75 (Time Warner & Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN), and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS). THEATER TALK episodes are available online anytime at www.cuny.tv and www.theatertalk.org and via iTunes.