Talk Radio On Broadway

Cast

Michael Lureman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:54:56 +0000

Liev Schreiber (Barry Champlain) Broadway: Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award), Betrayal, In the Summer House, Moonlight. Off-Broadway: The Mercy Seat, Ivanov, Edward II, Escape From Happiness, The Size of the World and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Public Theater credits include Macbeth (Macbeth), Henry V (Henry V), Othello (Iago), Hamlet (Hamlet), Cymbeline (Iachimo; Obie, Callaway Awards), The Tempest (Sebastian). Film: Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), The Painted Veil, The Ten, The Omen, The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, The Hurricane, Jakob the Liar, A Walk on the Moon, Twilight, Party Girl, Mixed Nuts, Walking and Talking, The Daytrippers, Scream 1-3, Sphere, Ransom, Spring Forward. Television: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, HBO’s “RKO 281″ (Emmy, Golden Globe nominations), “Lackawanna Blues”, “Spinning Boris”, “Buffalo Girls”, “People V”, “The Sunshine Boys”. Feature film directorial debut: Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which he also adapted for the screen. Training: Yale School of Drama.

Stephanie March (Linda MacArthur) Broadway: Death of a Salesman (Tony Award-winning revival directed by Robert Falls). Other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Enchanted April and extensive work in regional theatre including the premiere of Eric Bogosian’s Griller. Television credits include five seasons as Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot on “Law & Order: SVU”, “Conviction” and most recently playing Tina Fey’s love interest on “30 Rock”. Film: Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Head of State, Social Grace, The Treatment, East Broadway and Flannel Pajamas, both of which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Stephanie is a graduate of Northwestern University and resides in New York with her husband, Chef Bobby Flay. Stephanie’s favorite dish is biscuits and gravy.

Peter Hermann (Dan Woodruff) Broadway: Judgment at Nuremberg. Off- Broadway: The Gathering (Jewish Rep). Other NY theatre: Titus Andronicus (NADA) and Egypt (La MaMa E.T.C.), both with Target Margin Theatre; Moving Bodies (E.S.T.); Jeff Weiss’ Hot Keys (P.S. 122). Regional credits include: Orsino in Twelfth Night (Guthrie), and Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Arena). Film: United 93, Duane incarnate, The Treatment. Television: “Law & Order: SVU” (recurring), “Law & Order”, “30 Rock”, “Standoff”, “Angela’s Eyes”, “Sex and the City.” (8)

Michael Laurence (Stu Noonan) Theatre includes Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena), Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty (McCarter), Faculty Room (Humana), Book of Days and Tooth of Crime (Signature), Three Days of Rain, Things of Dry Hours, Wintertime, Tape, Levittown, Edward II. Film: The Operator, Escape Artists, Room 314, Particles of Truth. TV: “Third Watch”, “Jonny Zero.”

Sebastian Stan (Kent) starred in Renny Harlin’s 2006 film, The Covenant, for Sony Screen Gems. Upon graduating with a BFA from Rutgers University, Stan was immediately cast into the feature film The Architect, opposite Anthony LaPaglia, Isabella Rossellini and Hayden Panettiere. He later starred in the recently released Red Doors and can be seen as a blonde in the upcoming feature The Education of Charlie Banks. Stan is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut in Talk Radio, and as a New York actor is proud to have been cast into a guest role on “Law & Order”.

Christine Pedi (Rachael, Female Callers) Radio: Host on Sirius Radio’s “Broadway’s Best”. Stage: Drama Desk nomination and L.A. Ovation Award for Forbidden Broadway (NY, London, L.A., Australia, Singapore and beyond), Little Me, A Train Plays, 24 Hour Plays, A Broadway Diva Christmas. TV: “The Sopranos”, the late Mrs. Bobby Baccala. (He loved her so much he couldn’t defrost her ziti!) www.ChristinePedi.com

Barbara Rosenblat (Female Callers, Dr. Susan Fleming) Theatre highlights: The Secret Garden (Broadway), A Little Night Music (Stafford Arima, director), Torch Song Trilogy (London). TV: “Law & Order: SVU”, “Guiding Light”. With more than 400 audio books to her credit (winning six coveted Audie Awards for superior narrations) and numerous documentaries and commercials, Rosenblat is one of the country’s most respected voice actors.

Adam Sietz (Sid Greenberg, Male Callers) Award-winning writer/producer, comedian, actor. Credits include Sophie and Noah, co-produced with his loving wife Melissa. Broadway: Barefoot in the Park. Film: Celebrity, Sweet and Lowdown, Noise, Little Children. TV: “The Sopranos”, “Third Watch”, “L&O”, “L&O: Criminal Intent”, “Ed”, “Chappelle’s Show”, “The Chris Rock Show”, “UCB”, regular voice on “Dora” and “Go Diego, Go!” Love to MYPAMALATE. www.adamsietz.com

Marc Thompson (Vince Farber, Male Callers) Broadway debut. Recently performed in Bang Theatre’s The Ives SixPack. Voice of Star Wars: Legacy of the Force audio book series. Cartoons include “Daria”, “Viva Piñata”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. Many commercials, including the Citibank identity theft spots. He would like to thank God for such a blessed life and his family for sharing it with him. Hi mom/dad/principacha.

Kit Williamson (Spike) Broadway debut. Off Off-Broadway: Jacques Roux in Marat/Sade. Credits at Fordham University include Yegor Tremens Rodent in Slavs! directed by Larry Sacharow; Dionysus in The Bacchae; monsieurs Bonnefoi, Diafoirus and Fleurant in The Imaginary Invalid. He is currently in his third year at Fordham. Thanks to my family for, well, everything.

Cornell Womack (Bernie, Male Callers) Broadway: On Golden Pond. Off-Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (Public Theater), Yellowman (Manhattan Theatre Club), Thunder Knocking on the Door (Minetta Lane Theatre), The Odyssey (Theatre at St. Clement’s), The A-Train Plays (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits: Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre. Television: “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Conviction”, “Waterfront”, “The Black Donnellys” MTV’s “Human Giant” and can currently be seen as Richard on “Rescue Me”

Christy Pusz(Jordan Grant, Female Caller) Broadway u/s: The Odd Couple, Dinner at Eight (LCT), Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème (also at the Ahmanson Theatre). Other credits include Home Front (La MaMa), The Salacious Uncle Baldrick (NYC Fringe 2005). BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts

Lee Sellars (U/S Dan Woodruff, Stu Noonan, Spike). New York theatre: A Small Melodramatic Story, Buying Time, The Alchemist. Regional: The Pillowman, The God of Hell, Flag Day. Film: Tenderness, The Savages, Love the Hard Way, Groundhog Day. TV: “Chappelle’s Show,” “The Sopranos,” “Third Watch,” “Law & Order.”

Oliver Vaquer (U/S Sid Greenberg, Bernie, Male Callers) Born and raised in NYC, Vaquer attended Tisch on a full acting scholarship. Years of small productions, under-fives, coast-hopping and screen test sled to a full-time voiceover career which has led him to this, his Broadway debut. Vaquer dedicates this to his beautiful wife Cara and their newborn son, Gavin.

Creative

Michael Lureman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:56:45 +0000

Eric Bogosian (Playwright) In addition to Talk Radio (originally produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1987), is the author of the plays subUrbia (LCT), and Griller (Goodman), both directed by Robert Falls, Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theatre) and six solo performances (Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and others), which he starred in Off-Broadway between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie Awards. He adapted and starred in Oliver Stone’s film of Talk Radio (Berlin Film Festival – Silver Bear Award), and wrote the screenplay for Richard Linklater’s film version of subUrbia. Mr. Bogosian is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, starring in Robert Altman’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Under Siege 2, Atom Egoyan’s Ararat and Wonderland. Currently he stars on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” on NBC. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eric Bogosian is married to director Jo Bonney. www.ericbogosian.com

Tad Savinar (Co-Creator) was formally trained as a visual artist and had no experience in the theater experience prior to meeting Mr. Bogosian in 1980. Since the original production of Talk Radio in 1982, he has written and had professionally produced four stage plays. A fifth, Cover Shot, a play about architects and developers, was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and produced by the Portland Repertory Theater in 1994. Mr. Savinar continues to exhibit his visual work in galleries and museums across the country. Since 1991, he has focused most of his time and energy as an urban design consultant for large scale infrastructure projects and inner-city revitalization plans.

Robert Falls (Director) is celebrating his 20th anniversary as artistic director of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, where he most recently directed King Lear, starring Stacy Keach. Previous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions include Frank’s Home, Shining City, Death of a Salesman (Tony Awards for Best Director and Best Production), Long Day’s Journey into Night (three Tony Awards, Drama Desk for Direction), Aida, The Young Man from Atlanta, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, subUrbia (Obie Award) and The Food Chain. At the Goodman, Mr. Falls has directed world premieres of Arthur Miller’s Finishing the Picture, Rebecca Gilman’s Dollhouse and Blue Surge, Steve Tesich’s The Speed of Darkness, Eric Bogosian’s Griller, Louis Rosen and Thom Bishop’s Book of the Night and John Logan’s Riverview; the American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden; and acclaimed productions of Galileo, The Iceman Cometh, Three Sisters and Pal Joey. His credits also include the award-winning production of Death of a Salesman in London’s West End; The Iceman Cometh at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre; and various operas for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and Grande Théâtre de Genève.

Mark Wendland (Set Designer) Broadway: Death of a Salesman, with Brian Dennehy, directed by Robert Falls (also Goodman Theatre, national tour, London’s West End); An Almost Holy Picture, with Kevin Bacon. New York: Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A Dybbuk (Public Theater); The Beauty of the Father, Iron (Manhattan Theatre Club); Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries (Classic Stage Company); Hot ‘n’ Throbbing (Signature Theatre Co.); Sabina (Primary Stages); Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Public Theater at the Delacorte in Central Park). Dublin: A View From the Bridge (the Gate Theatre). Regional venues: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep., the Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf, Trinity Rep. and many others. Upcoming: Some Men, Second Stage Theatre.

Laura Bauer (Costume Designer) Broadway: Glengarry Glen Ross, Frankie and Johnny…, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Off-Broadway plays at MTC, the Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Lincoln Center, Naked Angels, Circle Rep and the Atlantic Theater (company member). Years of work with Steppenwolf, Remains and the Goodman in Chicago. Selected films: High Fidelity, Sweet and Lowdown, Telling Lies in America, Pieces of April and the to-be-released Spinning Into Butter. TV: “Insatiable” for Showtime.

Christopher Akerlind (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Shining City; Well; Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination); Rabbit Hole; A Touch of the Poet; In My Life; The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk,Outer Critics Awards); Reckless; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Seven Guitars (Tonynomination); Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Piano Lesson. Recent: Howard Katz (Roundabout), A Spanish Play (CSC), Kaos (NYTW), Wrecks (Public). Awards: Obiefor Sustained Excellence; numerous nominationsfor Tony, Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics awards.

Richard Woodbury (Sound Designer) New York credits include music and sound design for the Tony Award-winning productions of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Death of a Salesman and others. Other credits include productions at the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Alley, Geffen, Ahmanson and Trinity Repertory theatres. Richard has received Helen Hayes and Ruth Page awards and numerous nominations for Drama Desk, “Jeff,” and Ovation awards. Richard is a faculty member at Columbia College Chicago.

Kathy Fabian/Propstar (Properties Coordinator) Broadway credits include Prelude to a Kiss, Spring Awakening, High Fidelity, Barefoot in the Park, Souvenir, Steel Magnolias, Sweet Charity, Match, Fiddler on the Roof, Bobbi Boland, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Golda’s Balcony. Off-Broadway/regional: Dog Sees God, CenturyCenter; Altar Boyz, Dodger Stages; NineParts of Desire, MET; Romance, Atlantic Theater Co.; The Foreigner, Roundabout Theatre Co.; Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Little Schubert; The Play About the Baby, Union Square Theatre; and The Vineyard Theatre’s production of Avenue Q. Fabian has served as resident props designer for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, Bay Street Theatre Festival and the Big Apple Circus.

Jane Grey (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Faith Healer; A Streetcar Named Desire; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Death of a Salesman; Fortune’s Fool; A Thousand Clowns; Gore Vidal’s The Best Man; In My Life; Taller Than a Dwarf; Titanic; Twilight: L.A., 1992; The Big Love; Tru. National tours: The King and I, Sunset Boulevard, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Blood Brothers, Tru. Off-Broadway: Fame on 42nd St., Elaine May, Neil LaBute, Sam Shepard, Joe Chaikin, A.R. Gurney, Tommy Tune, Caryl Churchill, Joe Papp, etc. School: Sarah Lawrence. Home: Binny and Buster.

Matthew Farrell (Stage Manager) Broadway: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Enchanted April. National tour: Mrs. Klein with Uta Hagen. Off-Broadway he has worked at the John Houseman Theater, Lucille Lortel Theatre, American Place Theatre, York Theatre, Circle Rep and the New York Theatre Workshop. Farrell has also written and produced numerous projects for some of the most trusted names in educational media, including PBS, PBS Kids, “Dragon Tales” and “Sesame Street.”

Telsey + Company (Casting) Broadway/tours: Deuce, Legally Blonde, Company, Grey Gardens, Tarzan, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Sweeney Todd, All Shook Up, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Off-Broadway: In the Heights, The Fantasticks, Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector.

Neil A. Mazzella (Technical Supervisor) is the CEO of Hudson Scenic and Hudson Sound and Light. Broadway credits for these companies include Mary Poppins, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King and Chicago.As technical supervisor: Spring Awakening, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz and Angels in America. Graduate, Yale School of Drama.

Albert Poland (General Manager) is currently the general manager of Bill W. and Dr. Bob and has served in that capacity for more than 90 New York productions, including The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dirty Blonde, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Grapes of Wrath, As Is, Little Shop of Horrors, Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Uta Hagen in Mrs. Klein, Eileen Heckart in The Waverly Gallery, Always…Patsy Cline, Steel Magnolias, Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind, Vanities, David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre, One Mo’ Time, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Neon Woman, Tommy Tune Atop the Village Gate, Let My People Come, Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little and Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery.

Jeffrey Richards (Producer) Broadway: Spring Awakening; The Pajama Game (Tony Award) starring Harry Connick Jr.; David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award); Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; Matthew Barber’s Enchanted April; A Thousand Clowns, starring Tom Selleck; Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards). Off-Broadway: John Logan’s Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story (Outer Critics Circle Award), David Ives’ Mere Mortals, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Peter Ackerman’s Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight. Upcoming: August Wilson’s Radio Golf at the Cort Theatre.

Jerry Frankel (Producer) Currently on Broadway: Spring Awakening. Recently: The Little Dog Laughed; Glengarry Glen Ross (winner 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival); Death of a Salesman (Tony Award); Matthew Barber’s Enchanted April (winner Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony-nominated for Best Play); Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (winner Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial with David Schwimmer; Jekyll & Hyde; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Drama Desk Award). Mr. Frankel operated the Park Cities Playhouse in Dallas where he presented numerous productions including Love Letters with Charlton Heston and Shakespeare for My Father with Lynn Redgrave. Upcoming: August Wilson’s Radio Golf at the Cort Theatre.

Jam Theatricals (Producer) is a Chicago-based entertainment company founded by Arny Granat, Jerry Mickelson and Steve Traxler. Broadway producing credits include The History Boys (2006 Tony Award for Best Play), Monty Python’s Spamalot (2005 Tony Award for Best Musical), Glengarry Glen Ross (2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), The Wedding Singer, The Retreat From Moscow and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Jam also manages more than 30 subscription-series markets throughout North America and has presented shows including Cats, The Producers, STOMP, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Miss Saigon and Riverdance.

Francis Finlay (Producer) is a British-born financier and philanthropist with a strong interest in Theater. Previous production credits include revivals of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man on Broadway and three new plays in London, Terry Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde and Christopher Shinn’s “Other People”, both at the Royal Court, and Carl Djerassi’s Oxygen at the Riverside Theater.

Ronald Frankel (Producer) Producing credits include Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He also produced Glengarry Glen Ross, the 2005 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play. Ronald is the founder of Rafaella Apparel Group. Love to Alex, Sammy and Nicole.

James Fuld Jr. (Producer) In association with Roundabout Theatre and Jeffrey Richards, producer of The Pajama Game (2006 Tony Award, Best Musical Revival) starring Harry Connick Jr. Co-producer of A Thousand Clowns starring Tom Selleck. Future productions include a national tour of The Pajama Game.

Steven Green (Producer) and Altacliff Entertainment have produced the award-winning documentary WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception and the recently completed In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts. Stage projects include Party Come Here presented at the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, the Broadway boundrevival of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap and this production of Talk Radio.

Judith Hansen (Producer) marks her Broadway debut. As past president and current trustee of the Milwaukee Rep., she has been associated with productions of Gem of the Ocean, The Seagull, Angels in America and Frozen. Produced The Jammer for Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Fringe First. A trustee for the O’Neill Theatre Center, Ms. Hansen attended the Yale School of Drama.

Patty Ann Lacerte (Producer) Talk Radio is her first Broadway production. She happily makes memories with her children and grandchildren in Long Beach, Aspen and Dallas. She would like to send a heartfelt thanks to her family and friends for their love and support in “making all memories”. It is a pleasure to help bring this exciting play to Broadway. I love New York City.

James Riley (Producer) spent his career developing advertising and media companies. He sold his businesses in 1998 and since then has been having a good time and investing in various ventures. His lifelong love of theater eventually lured him to Broadway.

Mary Lu Roffe (Producer) Current shows: Spamalot (Tony Award Best Musical 2005); Spamalot (London); Spamalot (National Tour). Other credits include: Man Of La Mancha (Tony nominee, Best Musical Revival 2003); The Retreat From Moscow (Tony nominee, Best Play 2004), Hedda Gabler, Angels in America (national tour), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (London), Woman Before a Glass, Fully Committed, String of Pearls, Robbers, The Bomb-itty of Errors.

Mort Swinsky (Producer) Broadway: Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, The History Boys (Tony), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman, Spamalot, Avenue Q (Tony), Frozen, Wonderful Town, The Boy From Oz, Hairspray (Tony), Chicago (Tony), La Bohème, The Crucible, Elaine Stritch (Tony), Annie Get Your Gun (Tony). Films: Dark Days, Boys Don’t Cry, You Can Count On Me. TV: “Sweeney Todd” and “Candide”.

Sheldon Stein (Producer) Producing credits include Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He is a senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co. and is a graduate of Brandeis University and Harvard Law School. He lives with his wife, Barbara, in Dallas and New York, and thanks his children, Shane, Tracey, Kyle and Reid.

Irving Welzer (Producer) presented Judy Garland and Sammy Davis at Mosque Theater in Newark. Co-produced the Tony Winners Raisin and Annie Get Your Gun starring Bernadette Peters, The Primary English Class, A Thousand Clowns, and Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: High Rollers and Professionally Speaking. Selected Friar of The Year in 1987 by the New York Friars Club. Thanks to Joyce, Nicole, Brielle, and my son Steve for lighting up my life.

Herb Blodgett (Producer) His New York and London credits include Annie Get Your Gun (Tony), Enchanted April, The Weir, Old Wicked Songs, High Rollers and Say Goodnight, Gracie. He is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Players and the Drama League, and a member of the Friars Club.

Terri and Timothy Childs (Producer) Broadway/London: Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Annie; Off-Broadway: Mnemonic, Cupid and Psyche. Other productions include Jeffrey in Los Angeles, national tours of Swing! and Annie, and U.K. productions of BFG and Carmen, the latter complete with a dancing horse.

Stylefour Productions (Producer) John Styles and Dave Clemmons credits include Broadway: Spring Awakening, Talk Radio; Off-Broadway: 25 Questions. Other New York credits: An Intimate Evening With Frank Wildhorn and Friends and the critically acclaimed Bat Boy: The Musical. StyleFour is a founder and partner in Off Broadway Booking.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director) is the Off-Broadway theatre that produces great stories simply and truthfully, utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic has produced more than 100 plays, including the world premiere of the musical Spring Awakening now at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, David Mamet’s Romance, Harold Pinter’s The Room and Celebration and Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block.

News

Michael Lureman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:53:07 +0000

Leading Men Lead the Field: Five Riveting Performances Make for a Stiff Competition

Ben Brantley profiles Liev Schrieber for his “Best Actor in a Play” Tony nomination as “Barry Champlain”

TALK RADIO Nominated! 2007 TONY Awards! Best Actor, Liev Schreiber and Best Revival of a Play!

TALK RADIO Nominated for 3 Drama Desk Awards! Click here for more info!

TALK RADIO Nominated for 2 Outer critics’ Circle Awards! Click here to view nominations.

Liev Scrieber honored by the Drama League for his performance in TALK RADIO! Click here to read more.

UPCOMING TALKBACK!
Wednesday, May 16 WABC’s radio Village Voice writer and social commentator Michael Musto will give a talkback following the evening performance!
Thursday, May 17, NY Post theatre gossip columnist Michael Riedel will give a talkback following the evening performance!
Don’t miss your chance to hear two of New York’s most infamous gossip columnists discuss the show, our culture, and the 2006-2007 theatre season!
FRIDAY, MAY 25TH, 2007 following the performance, Erich “MANCOW” Muller will be hosting a talkback with select castmembers! Don’t miss it!

Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Ny Magazine
The greatest-actor-of-his-generation label is a lot to stick on a guy, but Talk Radio gives Liev Schreiber a chance to back up the hype.

TALKBACKS at Talk Radio: Free Speech in the Digital Age
Source: Talkradioonbroadway.com
On Tuesday, March 20th, the cast of Talk Radio and leading bloggers from Gothamist and New York Magazine will be on hand following the 8 pm performance of Talk Radio to discuss the realities facing freedom of speech in the era of The Patriot Act, online blogs, and the Myspace generation. Join us for a special evening of politics, opinions, and issues as we freely discuss Free Speech with the cast of Eric Bogosian’s timely play currently on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre!

THEATER ON THE RADIO
Source: NY Magazine
NY Magazine interviews Chris Noth, Eric Bogosian and more about the significance of radio, and of course, the state of the American theater…

A Celeb-Packed Opening for Bogosian, Schreiber, and the stars of Talk Radio
Source: Broadway.com
It was a sparkling night at the Longacre Theatre for the opening of Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio on March 11! See the pictures of everyone from Bernadette Peters to Chris Noth!

Behind the Scenes: Backstage at Talk Radio with Stephanie March
Source: Broadway.com
A backstage tour and chat with Stephanie March, back on Broadway in Talk Radio at the Longacre Theatre

Photo Coverage: Talk Radio Opening Night
Source: Broadwayworld.com
Talk Radio opened at the Longacre Theatre March 11, 2007 and a bevy of stars showed up for the big night on Broadway and the after party at chef Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain.

The Larynxes That Invaded Broadway
Source: New York Times
In the voice-over line of work, Broadway roles don’t come up every day, and for the voice-over actors “Talk Radio” feels like validation: the best voice-over actors can, with just a line or two of dialogue, make you see characters you can only hear, and juggle a range of accents more diverse than a Benetton catalog.

Talking Man
Source Playbill.com
As Talk Radio preps for its Broadway premiere, Eric Bogosian looks back at the origins of his scathing 1987 portrait of a gonzo radio host.

Eric Bogosian
Source Broadway.com
Call it the all-Bogosian season: Over the course of the next year, theatergoers can catch revivals of two of Eric Bogosian’s best plays.

Photo Coverage: The Cast of Talk Radio Meets the Press
Source Broadwayworld.com
Eric Bogosian’s TALK RADIO, about a talk radio host’s last local broadcast before he goes national, began reharsals on Wednesday, January 17th and BroadwayWorld.com was there!

The Show

Michael Lureman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:45:52 +0000

Eric Bogosian’s Pulitzer Prize Nominated play TALK RADIO, about a controversial late night talk radio host, is now playing on Broadway at the Longacre Theater (220 West 48th Street) on Sunday, February 15th. The production is directed by Robert Falls, whose credits include Death of a Salesman (Tony Award), Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Shining City.

Liev Schreiber plays Barry Champlain, the vituperative and mesmerizing radio host. He was last seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he received the Best Featured Actor award for his portrayal of Ricky Roma. His other recent stage credits include Macbeth, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, and Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat.

Liev is joined by such talents as Peter Hermann “Law & Order,” “United 93,” and Stephanie March “Law & Order: SVU” & Death Of A Salesman.

Playwright Eric Bogosian’s work includes Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, SubUrbia, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll and Drinking in America (Drama Desk Award).

The design team for TALK RADIO is Mark Wendland (Sets), Laura Bauer (Costumes), Christopher Akerlind (Lighting), and Richard Woodbury (Sound).

The producing team is Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, and JAM Theatricals.

Tickets

Michael Lureman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:38:40 +0000

Eric Bogosian’s Pulitzer Prize Nominated play TALK RADIO, about a controversial late night talk radio host played it’s final Broadway performance at the Longacre Theater (220 West 48th Street) on Sunday, June 24th. The production is directed by Robert Falls, whose credits include Death of a Salesman (Tony Award), Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Shining City.

Liev Schreiber plays Barry Champlain, the vituperative and mesmerizing radio host. He was last seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he received the Best Featured Actor award for his portrayal of Ricky Roma. His other recent stage credits include Macbeth, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, and Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat.

Talk Radio played it’s final Broadway performance Sunday, June 24th at The Longacre Theatre

Longacre Theatre
220 West 48th Street (Between Broadway and 8th Avenue)
New York NY 10036

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Talk Radio played it’s final Broadway performance Sunday, June 24th at The Longacre Theatre