Green, Musto and Pacheco Join THEATER TALK for Spring Preview Today

Theater critic Jesse Green (New York Magazine) and theater journalists Michael Musto (Out.com) and Patrick Pacheco (NY1 News) join co-hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins for the annual Spring Season Preview of upcoming Broadway and Off-Broadway productions on an all-new THEATER TALK.

In a raucous edition that acknowledges Hamilton as the current Broadway behemoth, the critics address the new musicals Shuffle Along, Waitress (noting that it's the only musical in decades with a chart-topping hit song), American Psycho ("There's always a spot for a psychosis musical," says Green), Bright Star, Tuck Everlasting, and Disaster! The Musical. Covered as well are plays The Father, Hughie, The Humans, Eclipsed, Blackbird, The Crucible and Long Day's Journey Into Night. The panel also discusses the current revival of Noises Off and next season's production of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler.

The Spring Season 2016 Preview edition premieres in the New York metropolitan area beginning today, Feb. 5 (2016) at 1:30 AM (Saturday morning) on THIRTEEN/PBS. It repeats Sunday 1/31 at 11:30 AM on THIRTEEN/PBS; Saturday 1/30 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 1/31 at 12:30 PM and Monday 2/1 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM on CUNY TV*; and on Monday 2/1 at 5:30 PM on WLIW/21 - a total of 8 times weekly.

THEATER TALK is jointly producer by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The series 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 State Council on the Arts, 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 throughout the New York metropolitan area on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner; Optimum/Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN) and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS). The show is available online anytime at www.cuny.tv and www.theatertalk.org and via iTunes podcasts.

Pictured: Patrick Pacheco, Michael Musto, and Jesse Green (image courtesy Theater Talk/CUNY TV).

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