Remembering Joel Schumacher
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher on “The Phantom of The Opera” film. Dame Edna drops by at the end to complain that she wasn’t cast in it.
Read More →0 Comment
Remembering JERRY STILLER and ANNE MEARA
Remembering JERRY STILLER (1927-2020) and ANNE MEARA (1929-2015), Part 1 THEATER TALK presents an encore of our two-part interview with Ms. Meara with her husband and longtime partner, Jerry Stiller, who both together...
Read More →
The Return of Love Letters actor BRIAN DENNEHY and playwright A. R. GURNEY
Original tape date: October 3, 2014. First aired: November 1, 2014. Actor Brian Dennehy and playwright A.R. Gurney discuss the prolific writer’s revered play, Love Letters, now in an all-star revival on Broadway...
Read More →
A Conversation with WYNN HANDMAN
We remember Wynn Handman, a master acting coach snd very dear man. In 2014, we visited him in his studio, where he then continued his teaching career as one of the theater’s most...
Read More →
The late Adam Schlesinger with David Javerbaum sperform “Screw Loose” from CRY-BABY
Emmy-winning writer and lyricist David Javerbaum (of “The Daily Show”) and Adam Schlesinger perform “Screw Loose'” from CRY-BABY, the musical, which he wrote with Adam Schlesinger, based on the Jon Water’s movie. Adam...
Read More →
Remembering Jerry Herman
Theater Talk spotlights the creators of the new original musical “Kid Victory,” currently at the Vineyard Theatre, which tells the unconventional story of a teenage boy’s frightening disappearance, his horrific ordeal during his...
Read More →
Remembering John Simon (Kissel, le Sourd & Simon on Simon)
Today, we mourn the incomparable critic, John Simon. He was brilliant about so many things (and outrageously wrong about others- though over the years he mellowed). A consummate writer, he remarkably kept...
Read More →
Remembering HAROLD BLOOM on Theater Talk
The eminent scholar Harold Bloom (1930-2019) appears on “Theater Talk” in 2000 to discuss his book “Shakespeare, The Invention of The Human.”
Read More →
In Memoriam: D.A. Pennebaker (7/15/25-8/1/19) with wife & partner, Chris Hegedus
Documentary filmmakers Pennebaker and Hegedus appeared on THEATER TALK early in 1998 to discuss their documentary “Moon Over Broadway,” which chronicled a Ken Ludwig play (starring Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco) “Moon Over...
Read More →
