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Actor and playwright Jesse Eisenberg is perhaps best known for his acting roles in 'The Social Network' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and he talks about his fiction debut. Bream Gives…
Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa discusses his new musical, "First Daughter Suite," along with actors Alison Fraser, and Caissie Levy. The show imagines the inner lives and dreams of Ameri…
The legendary Julie Andrews discusses her many roles on stage and screen! She'll also discuss motherhood, and her latest children's book, The Very Fairy Princess: A Spooky, Sparkly Halloween…
In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it ma…
Playwright Robert O'Hara and actors Tamberla Perry and Samantha Soule talk about their new play, "Barbecue." The play revolves around the O'Mallery family, who stage …
Mint Theater artistic director Jonathan Bank discusses the new production of Harold Chapin's "The New Morality," along with star Brenda Meaney. The play takes us aboard a houseboat on a f…
Since his first play, "And Things That Go Bump in the Night," which premiered in 1965, Terrence McNally has proven himself to be a trailblazing figure in American theater, known for his e…
Lear deBessonet conceived and directed the community-based Public Works musical adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey at The Public Theater. Inspired by the historical pageantry movement of t…
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld discusses the work of her late husband, Al Hirschfeld, along with David Leopold, who organized "The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld" at the New-York Histo…
Actor Patrick Stewart discusses the new series he stars in, "Blunt Talk," along with the show's creator and show runner, Jonathan Ames. The show follows Walter Blunt (Stewart), a British imp…
Playwright Joshua Harmon talks about his play "Significant Others," with stars Gideon Glick and Lindsay Mendez. A young man searches for love while supporting his friends, and finds it…
Martin Short talks about his life, career, and new memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend. Once a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada, he transformed himself into one of Hollywoo…
Colin Quinn discuss the new off-Broadway play he wrote and stars in, "Colin Quinn The New York Story." Based on his book The Coloring Book and directed by Jerry Seinfeld, the play has Qui…
Before he was cast in "The Defiant Ones," with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis " a role for which he would be nominated for an Academy Award, the Austrian-born Theodore Bikel told director St…
Penn Jillette joined us to talk about coming back to Broadway with his partner Teller. He also let us in on some of his favorite music, TV shows, and foods.
What have you read or seen ove…
Penn Jillette talks about his Broadway engagement with partner in magic, Teller. The show includes both elements of their Las Vegas show and classics from their repertoire, and marks t…
The Bronx-born E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow made the past come alive through his many novels "among them Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, World Fair, and Loon La…
The Welsh-born actor Roger Rees may be familiar to fans of "Cheers" and "The West Wing." But he was primarily a denizen of the stage " where he won both an Olivier and Tony awards for his le…
Playwright Anne Washburn and actor Thomas Jay Ryan discuss their production, "10 Out of 12." In it, a company of theatre artists is engaged in the task of making a new play. Based on notes W…
The Public Theater kicked off their free Shakespeare in the Park season with a production of "The Tempest." Sam Waterston who is playing the character of Prospero alongside…
Director John Collins talks about the new staging of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," along with stars Kaneza Schall and Vin Knight. The production is a staging of the first s…
Jesse Eisenberg talks about "The Spoils," the play he wrote and stars in, along with co-star Michael Zegen, about Ben, a moody ex-graduate student who lives off his parents' money and …
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" may well have been Shakespeare's first play. A seemingly simple tale of shifting devotions among mismatched lovers, it helped launch the genre of…
We're taking a look at the new Lincoln Center production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I" with star Kelli O'Hara! The show was recently nominated for nine Tony Awards in…
On May 29, lyricist Sheldon Harnick was on the show to talk about writing for the legendary musical, "Fiddler on the Roof." While Harnick was responsible for show tunes like "Tradition" a…
