Theater Talk Features AMERICAN IDIOT'S Armstrong and Mayer May 7

Theatre Talk will feature Billie Joe Armstrong, composer-lyricist, Michael Mayer, director, from "American Idiot" based on the album by Green Day on Thirteen Friday, May 7 at 12:30 AM and on CUNY TV  Saturday, May 8th at 8:30 PM, Sunday, May 9th at 12:30 PM and Monday, May 10th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM

Billie Joe Armstrong, composer and lyricist of the Tony-nominated musical American Idiot, based on the best-selling album he created with his band Green Day. He is joined by director Michael Mayer, who had the vision to transform American Idiot from a rock opera into a critically acclaimed musical for the stage.

Theatre Talk airs 10 times weekly in the New York area: on PBS station thirteen and NJN, plus WNYC and CUNY and is hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post and series producer Susan Haskins. For more information

Next week a free wheeling conversation with Christopher Walken,now starring in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane, for which he has just received a Best Actor Tony nomination.  The show will air on Thirteen Friday, May 14 at 12:30am and on CUNY TV Saturday, May 15th at 8:30 PM; Sunday, May 16th at 12:30 PM and Monday, May 17th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM.

Stark Sands, John Gallagher, Jr. and Michael Esper in American Idiot
photo by Paul Kolnik