Theater Talk: Spring Season Preview 2015

Entertainment journalists Jesse Green of “New York” Magazine, Michael Musto of Out.com and Patrick Pacheco of the “Los Angeles Times” discuss the upcoming New York theater season and productions including: “Honeymoon in Vegas,” Helen Mirren in “The Audience,” David Hare's “Skylight,” “Something Rotten!” “Fun Home,” Wendy Wasserstein's “The Heidi Chronicles,” as well as three musicals that have had epically-long roads to Broadway: “Doctor Zhivago,” Chita Rivera in Kander & Ebb's “The Visit” and mega-producer Harvey Weinstein's “Finding Neverland.”
Taped: 01-09-15
Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins.
The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.)
The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts.
Watch more Theater Talk at www.cuny.tv/show/theatertalk

[@jeffreykare]

I think it's pretty much been known for a while that critics only make judgements, NOT hits. Remember Beauty & The Beast, Aida, Wicked, Mary Poppins, Memphis, Motown, Beautiful, etc.

[@karent-s7639]

OMG...The name is Thomas Cromwell, not Oliver Cromwell!

[@CitzenVain714]

WTF is going on with Patrick Pacheco's hair?

[@seethevolcane]

And : Susan's latest wig !

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

Sad to say, I don't think Wendy Wasserstein's plays were actually good. They seemed important at the time but in reality she usually just listed current issues and thought that would pass for depth. I think people wanted her to be an important female playwright but she really wasn't that good.

[@seethevolcane]

The Visit will be a bombe.

[@Hairsprayxoxoful]

Wait...did Micheal Musto just put Kinky Boots and Honeymoon in Vegas????? Ok im DONE

[@onetouchofvenus2335]

I don't think Fun Home will end up going the way of Caroline or Change. It's a FAR better and more entertaining musical in just about every way.... Lisa Kron seems to have a knack for the musical idiom, unlike Tony Kushner. And I mean come on, Caroline or Change is the epitome of "earnest". It's basically The Help, except with talking-singing-dancing wash machines.

[@BEE-mp9vk]

onetouchofvenus Ok but Caroline, or Change is incredible as is Fun Home soo...

[@capt.molyneaux7037]

Oh, this Broadway cumm. Give us some insight....into the mediocrity of Bwy.