Vanessa Redgrave Featured on 5/11 'Theater Talk'

On Friday, May 11 at 12 AM on Thirteen, "Theater Talk" will welcome legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave, now starring on Broadway in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.

In addition, writer Peter Sagal will discuss his play Denial.  Sagal (who is also the host of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me)'s play is now at Off-Broadway's Metropolitan Playhouse.

The Year of Magical Thinking opened March 29th at Broadway's Booth Theatre. The one-woman production, written by acclaimed author Didion and based on her best-selling memoir, stars Redgrave (Oscar-winner for Julia) and will run for a limited engagement of 24 weeks. David Hare directs. 

The Year of Magical Thinking follows Didion, author of Democracy and Slouching Towards Bethlehem, reflecting on the sudden death of her husband of 40 years as her only child lay in a coma. "Capturing the compassion, humor, and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable, The Year of Magical Thinking is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage told with raw candor and a storyteller's gift for the absurd," state press releases.

For more information, visit www.theatertalk.org, www.MagicalThinkingonBroadway.com or www.metropolitanplayhouse.org for more on Sagal's play.

Photo of Vanessa Redgrave in The Year of Magical Thinking by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.