TIME STANDS STILL Hosts AP Talkback 1/18

TIME STANDS STILL, Broadway's best reviewed new play at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street), continues its talkback series Tuesday, January 18 following the 7 PM performance with an edition sponsored by The Associated Press. The talk back will feature moderator Kimberly Dozier, a Washington-based newsperson with a focus on intelligence and terror threats to the U.S. and its allies, John Daniszewski, vice president and senior managing editor/international news, and AP Director of Photography Santiago Lyon.

They will discuss the rigors of international coverage of the news in the world's hotspots during the digital era. AP journalists have a wide range of experience telling the toughest stories from the toughest locales for a global audience.

Each TIME STANDS STILL talkback features noted experts from the worlds of journalism, photojournalism, foreign affairs, and leaders in the international fight to protect journalistic freedoms.

TIME STANDS STILL stars Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Christina Ricci. The play is by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan.

TIME STANDS STILL, follows Sarah and James (Laura Linney and Brian d'Arcy James), a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent trying to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Theirs is a partnership based on telling the toughest stories and together, making a difference. But when their own story takes a sudden turn, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life... and everything changes - in a flash.

Tickets range from $26.50 - $121.50 with premiere seating available from $176.50 - $251.50 with standing room (when available) at $26.50. Tickets include a $1.50 facility fee. Tickets are available through Telecharge.com, by phone at 212-239-6200, or 800-432-7250, online at www.Telecharge.com or at the Cort Theatre Box Office (138 West 48th Street).

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FOR TIME STANDS STILL:
THROUGH SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 Tuesday 7PM, Wednesday 2PM & 8PM, Thursday 7PM, Friday 8PM, Saturday 2PM & 8PM, Sunday 3PM.

BIOGRAPHIES
MODERATOR: KIMBERLY DOZIER joined The Associated Press this year as a Washington-based newsperson with a focus on intelligence and terror threats to the U.S. and its allies. Previously, Dozier covered the White House, Pentagon and national security for CBS News. She reported overseas for 14 years, with assignments from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan to Kosovo. Dozier covered the Iraq war until 2006, when she was injured in a car bombing. Before CBS, Dozier was an anchor for the BBC Radio World Service's "World Update." Dozier graduated from Wellesley College and has a master's degree from the University of Virginia.

JOHN DANISZEWSKI, vice president and senior managing editor/international news, rejoined the AP in New York as International Editor in 2006 after 19 years abroad for both the AP and for the Los Angeles Times. As a correspondent, he had been based in Warsaw, Johannesburg, Cairo, Moscow, Baghdad and London, covering such stories as the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the wars of the former Yugoslavia, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He leads a team of more than 600 reporters, editors and other staff with bureaus in approximately 100 countries. As Managing Editor-International since November 2007, he is engaged in a reorganization of the AP's global structure designed to speed the flow of copy from regional centers to the entire world. He first worked for the AP as a college stringer and became a staff member in 1979, with early assignments in Philadelphia, Harrisburg and New York.

SANTIAGO LYON is director of photography of The Associated Press, responsible for the AP's global photo report and the hundreds of photographers and photo editors worldwide who produce it. He has 26 years' experience in news service photography and has won multiple photojournalism awards for his coverage of conflicts around the globe. Under Lyon's direction, the war in Iraq earned the AP its 48th Pulitzer Prize in 2005, for work by a team of photographers. The AP's winning entry, its 29th for photography, consisted of 20 photos from Iraq by 11 different photographers, five of them Iraqis. In 2007 the AP won its 30th Pulitzer Prize for photography for an image made by Oded Balilty showing an Israeli woman attempting to block a line of Israeli riot police. Lyon joined AP in 1991 in Cairo, Egypt after working for United Press International and Reuters. He has covered stories in Mexico, Central and South America, the 1991 Gulf War, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Yemen, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Lyon served as AP photo editor for Spain and Portugal from 1995 until 2003, when he accepted a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He was named Director of Photography in December 2003.