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Comedy legend Renée Taylor; plus Critics John Simon, Justin Brown & Matt Windma
Ethan Mordden on “Carousel” and “Chicago”
TONY Wrap-Up and Season Celebration
Spring 2018 Critics Forum
2018 TONY Predictions Gala
“Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women"
“Mean Girls” and “Randy Writes A Novel"
“My Fair Lady” Lincoln Center Theater revival
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"
"Frozen" songwriters; Charlotte St. Martin
Isaac Butler and the Angels of “Angels in America"
"Harry Clarke" David Cale, Billy Crudup and Leigh Silverman
“The 24 Hour Plays” and Writing Negative Reviews
Estelle Parsons and Patricia Bosworth on The Actors Studio
"Good for Otto"
“The Band’s Visit” Actors; Ted Chapin on Lyrics & Lyricists
“Jerry Springer – The Opera” and “The Amateurs”
John Lithgow - Stories By Heart
“Hello, Dolly!” and Off-Broadway Spring Preview
Broadway Spring 2018 Season Preview
The New Stars of "Hamilton"
"Farinelli and the King"; plus Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
Critics Panel (Winter 2018)
Amy Schumer of "Meteor Shower"; plus Agosto Machado
“The Band’s Visit” Creatives
"Junk" and "20th Century Blues"
Taymor & Hwang on "The Lion King" and "M. Butterfly"
Stephen Adly Guirgis on “Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train”
"Tiny Beautiful Things"/ Noël Coward's "Salute to the Brave"
"Torch Song" Trio
Halloween Gala
“KPOP” and Fall Season Preview Pt. 2
Season Preview
Creating "Dear Evan Hansen"
Caricaturist Ken Fallin, plus Remembering Al Hirschfeld
“When Broadway Went to Hollywood” author Ethan Mordden
Spring Season 2017 Critics, Part 2; actor/author Joel Grey
Spring Season 2017 Critics, Part 1
2017 Tony Awards Predictions
"Sweat"
“A Doll’s House, Part 2” and “Anastasia"
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
“Oslo” and The Return of “Dear Evan Hansen” Creatives
“Dear Evan Hansen” Creatives, Part 1
"Groundhog Day" with Andy Karl, Danny Rubin, Matthew Warchus
"War Paint" Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole & Michael Greif
"Indecent" and "Come From Away
Danny DeVito, Mark Ruffalo and Terry Kinney on “The Price"
“Dear Evan Hansen” Actors
"Miss Saigon" Revival
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh in “The Present"
"Kid Victory" / Jerry Herman on "Hello, Dolly!"
“Evening at the Talk House” with Shawn, Broderick & Elliott
August Wilson's JITNEY
John Breglio, producer/author of “I Wanna Be A Producer"
David Ives, Playwright, "The Liar"
Spring 2017 Season Preview
"Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened"
Holiday Critics 2016
"The Front Page"
“Falsettos” and “This Day Forward"
A Tribute to Edward Albee
Jennifer Holliday
"Oh, Hello on Broadway" and "Shear Madness"
"The Encounter" and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
Lisa Lampanelli's Stuffed; Jack Viertel; plus The Ride
"Spamilton" and Barry Day
Harvey Fierstein on "Hairspray LIVE!"
2016 Fall Season Preview
Talk to Remember (Best of 2015-2016 Season)
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Parsons, Horovitz & Fiordellisi
TONY Wrap-Up and “Turn Me Loose"
Critics, Spring 2016
Tony Predictions Gala
Gabriel Byrne; scenic designers David Rockwell &Robin Wagner
"Shuffle Along"
Jeff Daniels in “Blackbird"
"The Crucible"
"The Humans"
Frank Langella in “The Father"
Shakespeare Death-Day Anniversary Special
Bruce Vilanch and “American Psycho"
"Eclipsed" and "Hamilton" Update
Ethan Mordden on Sondheim
Fiddler, Now and Then
James Grissom
The Color Purple
Brian d’Arcy James and “Noises Off”
“Our Mother’s Brief Affair” with Linda Lavin; Len Cariou
Spring Season Preview 2016
Shapiro and Lyons
Roundabout at 50
John Irving
Critics
Plucky Princess, Mean Queen & Smitten Prince + The Windsors
Bedlam and "The First Noel"
Theater Talk Best of 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Josh Ellis plus Eric Bentley's 100th Birthday
Rob Bartlett and Tony Powell
“Allegiance” – A New American Musical
“Spring Awakening”
"Clever Little Lies" and "Razzle Dazzle," pt. 2
Fall 2015 Season Preview
“Razzle Dazzle”
“Drop Dead Perfect and The Hirschfeld Century"
Ben Yagoda and Margot Harley
Hedwig/Black Broadway
Tommy Tune
Wynn Handman
2015 Ultimate Broadway Critics Panel
TONY Awards Wrap-Up PLUS AndrewAndrew on the 2015 Red Carpet
Javerbaum's "An Act of God" & "Cagney" at The York
Tony Award Predictions Spectacular!
"Fun Home"
Nighy-Mulligan on "SKYLIGHT"
Mirren - "The Audience"
Hare & Daldry - Skylight
"The Visit" and "It Shoulda Been You"
"Wolf Hall"
"Hand to God" plus “24/6: A Jewish Theater Company”
"An American in Paris" and remembering Jean-Claude Baker
Honeymoon in Vegas/Remembering Albert Maysles
"Sound of Music" and "Something Rotten!"
"Constellations and Irving Berlin, 'You're Just in Love'."
Librettos and Masterpieces of The American Musical
“Between Riverside and Crazy”
Disgraced & Brooklynite
Spring Season Preview 2015
Elizabeth Ashley, Julie Halston & "Curious Incident's" Toby
Theater Talk Classic: Angela Lansbury & Marian Seldes - Deuce
Years-End Critics Round-up
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of The Flesh
Hope, the Man Who Invented Modern Comedy
Joy Behar and Bob Callely
Welcome Back “Side Show”
Cosson, Richardson & Cohen, Lloyd Webber
The Curious Incident
The Return of "Love Letters"
Sting and "The Last Ship" & "Tail! Spin!”
"Billy & Ray" also Remembering Marian Seldes
2014 Fall Season Preview
A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof
"A Raisin in the Sun" Trilogy
"Here Lies Love" & "Requiem 2014"
Shakespeare in America & Mama Rose's Turn
Tony Wrap Up and Tony Honoree Joan Marcus
Critics Review Broadway Spring Season 2014
The Gelbs on Eugene O'Neill
Tony Predictions, 2014
"Raisin in the Sun" and "Aladdin"
"Beautiful" Perspectives
Harvey Fierstein on "Casa Valentina"
Denzel Washington/Woodie King, Jr.
Steven Lutvak
"Mothers and Sons" / Tyne Daly & Terrence McNally
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” Trio; Woodie King, Jr
Satchmo at The Waldorf
Hellman v. McCarthy
Helly, Dolly! 50th Anniversary
Jerry Herman Tribute and Seff's Romance in Radio
Spring Season Preview, 2014
The Tribute Artist / Almost, Maine
Jeremy Gerard on his book "Wynn Place Show"
Green, Isherwood and Vincentelli
John Hodgman on "I Stole Your Dad"
Stephen Fry on "Twelfth Night"
"No Man's Land" & "Waiting for Godot"
Glen Berger, "Song of Spider-Man", Part 2
Glen Berger, "Song of Spider-Man", Part 1
"All That Fall"
"The Glass Menagerie" and Susan L. Schulman
"The Winslow Boy" and a Rattigan discussion
"A Time to Kill" and Baz Bamigboye
"The Landing" and "Macbeth"
Fall 2013 Season Preview
Ethan Mordden on his book "Anything Goes"
"The Old Friends" / "Fetch Clay, Make Man"
Buyer & Cellar / A visit to The Nance
Critic John Simon / Remembering Richard Griffiths
Sontag: Reborn / Natasha, Pierre
Tony Wrap-Up 2013/Red Carpet/"Cornelius"
George C. Wolfe / Holland Taylor
Tony Predictions 2013
Season's End Critics' Panel 2013
Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein on "Kinky Boots"
"Matilda, The Musical"
"Vanya and Sonia" and "FINKS"
"Buyer & Cellar" and a Broadway Update
Actor/writer Jesse Eisenberg on "The Revisionist"
The Vineyard Theatre's 30th Anniversary
A New Take on Cinderella
Playwright Amy Herzog/Broadway's Joe Allen
Top Casting Directors Explain It All
Elaine Stritch's 88th Birthday Bash!
Spring Season Preview 2013
The History and Heritage of Broadway
William Ivey Long
Critics Panel, Fall 2012
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
"Virginia Woolf" and "Asher Lev"
Actor Ed Asner
"Scandalous"
"West Side Story" & "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
"Checkers"
Ethan Mordden on Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Fall 2012 Season Preview
The Private Life of Ethel Merman
Christopher Bram on his book "Eminent Outlaws"
Bruce Jay Friedman on his memoir "Lucky Bruce"
"Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward"
Lewis Black and Nancy Giles
Tony Wrap-Up 2012 and Emanuel Azenberg
"A Streetcar Named Desire" and Rob Bartlett
"Peter and the Starcatcher"
Tony Predictions 2012
Alan Menken & Harvey Fierstein on "Newsies"
Critics Review the Broadway Spring Season, 2012
"One Man, Two Guvnors"
"Gore Vidal's The Best Man" revisited
Marilyn Maye
Spiderman v. Taymor and Remembering Ted Mann
Drama critics Charles Isherwood (New York Times), David Rooney (Variety) and Linda Winer (Newsday) review the new season.
"Venus in Fur" and "Carrie"
"Smash" Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan
Sir Tim Rice 2012
“Wit” and “Silence! The Musical”
"Seminar” Writer and Cast
Spring Season Preview 2012
Kevin Spacey on "Richard III"
Critic's Rampage 01-2012
"Follies" ’71 & A Jackie Hoffman New Year
Our Hugh Jackman Holiday Celebration
Zinoman and "Lysistrata Jones"
Playwrights: “Standing on Ceremony” & “Chinglish”
Frank Langella on "Man And Boy"
"Follies" Stars and Isherwood’s Lament
Behind the Scenes of "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark"
Fall Season Preview 10-2011
Regarding Terence Rattigan
Reflections on the Season
Legendary Lyricist Sheldon Harnick
Alan Menken, Part 2
Alan Menken, Part 1
Spring Critics 2011
Nicholas Hytner and Tony Wrap-up 2011
"Ghetto Klown" and "The Normal Heart"
Tony Predictions 2011
"The Book Of Mormon"
"Jerusalem"
Veteran producers Manny Azenberg and Michael David
"The Motherf**ker With The Hat"
Shaiman and Wittman on "Catch Me If You Can"
"Good People" and "Anything Goes"
Harvey Fierstein of "La Cage Aux Folles"
Peter Gelb of The Metropolitan Opera
Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Dick Cavett, Part 2
Dick Cavett, Part 1
Dana Ivey and Paul Rudnick
F. Murray Abraham
Austin Pendleton
Spring Season Preview 2011
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Part 2
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Part 1
Jacques le Sourd, John Simon and Terry Teachout
Colin Quinn and Todd Robbins
Ethan Mordden
John Cullum and Eric Bentley
James Shapiro and Jill Clayburgh
Edward Hibbert and Cherry Jones
Lee Hall, Deka Walmsley, Jerry Carlson
Charles Busch, Alison Fraser and Julie Halston
Elaine Stritch
Fall 2010 Season Preview
Jerry Carlson and Ethan Mordden
Robert Osborne
Rita Gardner and Tom Jones
Jules Feiffer
James Shapiro
Michael Kuchwara, John Heilpern, Jacques le Sourd, Jesse Green, Michael Musto, Patrick Pacheco
Joe Dziemianowicz, Charles Isherwood, John Simon, Elisabeth Vincentelli
Tony Wrap-up and the great Marian Seldes
Linda Lavin, Twyla Tharp
Tony Predictions, 2010
Baz Bamigboye, Bill T. Jones, Stephen Hendel, Sahr Ngaujah
Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Kenny Leon
Christopher Walken
Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer
Michael Friedman, Alex Timbers, Mark Shenton, The West End Whingers
Theodore Mann and Patrick Healy
Robert Hofler
“Love, Loss & What I Wore” and Decade in Review
Maury Yeston, Part 2
Patrick Pacheco and Peter Schneider
Douglas Carter Beane
Maury Yeston, Part 1
“The Scottsboro Boys”
Donald Margulies and Eric Bogosian
Liev Schreiber and Gregory Mosher
Broadway Producers and “The Orphans’ Home Cycle”
The Original Elaine Stritch
Spring Season Preview
“The Lyrics of Johnny Mercer”
Playwright Theresa Rebeck and the cast of her new comedy “The Understudy”: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Justin Kirk and Julie White
Bernard Gersten, Jerry Stiller and Kenneth Turan
Peter Marks, Aaron Riccio, Chris Kompanek, AndrewAndrew
Willem Dafoe, Richard Foreman, James Shapiro and Kevin Curtis
Ethan Mordden, Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles
Sir Alan Ayckbourn
“The Royal Family”
Bill T. Jones, Stephen Hendel, Sahr Ngaujah, Matthew Holtzclaw, Chuck Cooper
Neil Simon, Jordan Roth
Michael Korie, Arthur Perlman, Michael Kuchwara and Jacques le Sourd
2009-‘10 Season Preview
A Walk Through the Players Club
Larry Gelbart
Harriet Walter and Janet McTeer
Bob Avian, John Breglio & Charlotte d’Amboise Bob Avian, John Breglio & Charlotte d’Amboise
Tappan Wilder, Jeremy McCarter and David Cromer
Lewis Black and Nancy Giles
Celebrating “The Boys in the Band”
“Irena’s Vow” and “Catch Me if You Can”
Tony Wrap-up
Critics’ Cavalcade
Tony Predictions
Angela Lansbury
James Rado, Galt MacDermot and Gavin Creel
“God of Carnage”
“Mary Stuart” and “Reasons To Be Pretty”
Jane Fonda
Geoffrey Rush
Ted Chapin, Michael Korie, Liz Callaway and Andrew Samonsky
Arthur Laurents
Lynn Nottage, Saidah Arrika Ekulona and Elisabeth Vincentelli
Backstage at the Guthrie
Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Richard Kind and Jackie Hoffman
Linda Winer and John Simon
Gina Gionfriddo, David A. Jasen and Robert Kimball
Frank Langella
Garry Hynes and Marie Mullen
Jesse Green, Michael Musto, Patrick Pacheco
Christopher Plummer and John Simon
Peter Morgan
Lee Hall
Stephen Daldry, also Aaron Riccio
Baz Bamigboye and Charles Spencer
Horton Foote, Elizabeth Ashley and Hallie Foote
Harvey Fierstein
John Heilpern, Mike Kuchwara and Jacques le Sourd
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
Gerald Schoenfeld, also David Pittu and Peter Bartlett
“A Tribute to Clive Barnes”
Actor Frank Langella on “A Man for All Seasons” and “Frost/Nixon”
Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe
Emanuel Azenberg and James Freydberg
Estelle Parsons
Broadway Season Preview
Forum at The Guthrie
Legendary Composer Charles Strouse, Part 2
Legendary Composer Charles Strouse, Part 1
“Chicago” - the musical’s 10th anniversary, with Walter Bobbie, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth/plus: John Kander, Fred Ebb
“Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance”
South Pacific: Then and Now
Remembering Simon Gray
“Theater Talk’s 10th Anniversary Special” Highlights from the First Decade
Writer/director Arthur Laurents, on “Gypsy”
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice on “Jersey Boys”
Remembering Peter Stone
Theater Talk’s Tony Wrap-up ‘08
Theater Talk's Critic’s Tony Cavalcade
Jesse Green, Michael Musto, Patrick Pacheco
George Packer
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Musto
Patrick Stewart and Rupert Goold
George Wendt of "Hairspray;" plus David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger, the Tony-nominated songwriting team of "Cry-Baby: The Musical."
Sir Tim Rice discusses his career and the revival of “Chess,” the musical he wrote with ABBA.
Legendary filmmaker John Waters
Robert F. X. Sillerman, the Executive Producer of Mel Brooks’ Broadway musicals “The Producers” and “Young Frankenstein”
Actors David Hyde Pierce, Karen Ziemba, Edward Hibbert, stars of the Kander and Ebb musical, “Curtains.” Plus: composer Duncan Sheik, on “Spring Awakening.”
Stew and Heidi Rodewald, of “Passing Strange”; plus: film historian Jerry Carlson on the stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcok’s “The 39 Steps.”
Filmmaker Albert Maysles, co-director of the legendary documentary “Grey Gardens”
Elizabeth Ashley, actress, critic John Lahr debate the idea of an all-black revival of Tennessee Williams' classic, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Conleth Hill and Ciarán Hinds on “The Seafarer” / “November” First Rehearsal, with Nathan Lane, David Mamet, Laurie Metcalf Conleth Hill and Ciarán Hinds on “The Seafarer” / “November” First Rehearsal, with Nathan Lane, David Mamet, Laurie Metcalf
Tom Stoppard, playwright “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Actor Chazz Palminteri discusses his one-man Broadway show, A Bronx Tale
Actors Ian McShane and Raul Esparza on Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”
A conversation with Todd Haimes, Artistic Director of The Roundabout Theatre Company, celebrating its 40th Anniversary
A Tribute to Noel Coward, the legendary British writer/performer, with actress Elaine Stritch, critic John Simon, writer Barry Day
Andre De Shields of “Black Nativity”/The Shangilia Youth Choir of Kenya performs in-studio holiday music. Plus: a visit to a rehearsal of David Mamet’s “November.”
Charles Spencer, drama critic, The London Daily Telegraph
Playwright Conor McPherson on “The Seafarer,” plus photographer Joan Marcus and writer David Cote on their book on “The Jersey Boys.”
Writer Neal Gabler discusses his acclaimed biography, “Walt Disney: The Triumph Of American Imagination”
Playwright Stephen Massicotte on “The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion”; plus: Reverend Billy and director Savitri D on the docu., “What Would Jesus Buy?”
Critics Melissa Rose Bernardo of Entertainment Weekly and Jeremy McCarter of New York Magazine; plus: restaurateur Angus McIndoe.
Playwright Edward Albee
Playwright Theresa Rebeck and director Doug Hughes on “Mauritius”; Charles Busch on “Die Mommie Die!”
Season Preview Fall 2007 with Jesse Green (NY Times), John Heilpern (NY Observer), Michael Musto (Village Voice)
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane on Xanadu, plus Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer and lyricist Steven Sater of Spring Awakening
Oskar Eustis, Artistic Dir. of the Public Theater, on the 365 Days/365 Plays Festival. Interviewers: Aaron Ricco and Cindy Pierre
Kitty Carlisle Hart and Anne Kaufman Schneider discuss the legacy of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart