Tony Predictions Special

Michael Musto shares a rapturous insight with Patrick Pacheco and Jesse Green during our Tony Predictions Special (photo by Kalin Ivanov)

on NJN:
Thurs., June 2nd at 11:30 PM

on NYCTV:
Fri., June 3rd at 12:30 PM

on CUNY TV:
Sat., June 4th at 8:30,
Sun., June 5th at 12:30 PM and
Mon., June 6th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM &
7:30 PM

It’s been a particularly outstanding year on Broadway. Our panel of theater experts, Jesse Green of New York Magazine, Michael Musto of The Village Voice, and Patrick Pacheco of the LA Times, will sift through all the data and gossip to predict which of the candidates (the politics of Tony voting notwithstanding) will win these most coveted of theater awards.

John Leguizamo photo by Kalin Ivanov

on CUNY TV:

Sat., June 11th at 8:30,
Sun., June 12th

at 12:30 PM and

Mon., June 13th

at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM

 

Actor and writer John Leguizamo tells us how he transcended writers block to create his latest one-man show on Broadway, Ghetto Klown.

Also, we present an encore of our 2004 interview with writer Larry Kramer on the art and politics behind his classic play about the AIDS crisis The Normal Heart, now being revived in a Tony-nominated production at the John Golden Theatre in NYC.

The Book of Mormon’s Cast, Choreographer & Co-Director Tell All

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad in The Book of Mormon ©2011 Joan Marcus

 

on CUNY TV:
Sat., May 28th at 8:30,
Sun., May 29th at 12:30 PM and
Mon., May 30th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM

We welcome the Tony-nominated cast of The Book of Mormon (Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Rory O’Malley, and Andrew Rannells). They detail their lengthy participation in helping to create this Broadway blockbuster.

Also on the show, Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon‘s Tony-nominated co-director and choreographer, who is credited with giving this hit musical “the Broadway magic” it needed.

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Remembering Arthur Laurents

Arthur Laurents 1917-2011 (courtesy of Arthur Laurents)

on Thirteen:
Friday, May 20th at 12:30 AM

on CUNY TV:
Sat., May 21st at 8:30,
Sun., May 22nd at 12:30 PM and
Mon., May 23rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM


The brilliant Arthur Laurents died recently at age 93. In tribute to the writer/director who co-created West Side Story, Gypsy and La Cage Aux Folles, we are repeating one our favorite Laurents interviews. Taped in 2001, shortly after he had written his memoir, Original Story By, this conversation (along with virtuallyevery conversation we had with him) will remind viewers why Laurents will be revered as a great genius of the theater for years to come.

Tony Predictions

Michael Musto shares a rapturous insight with Patrick Pacheco and Jesse Green during our Tony Predictions show (photo by Kalin Ivanov)

on Thirteen:
Friday, May 27th at 12:30

on CUNY TV:
Sat., June 4th at 8:30,
Sun., June 5th at 12:30 PM and
Mon., June 6th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM &
7:30 PM

It’s been an outstanding year on Broadway. Our panel of theater experts, Patrick Pacheco of the LA Times, Michael Mustoof The Village Voice, and Jesse Green ofNew York Magazine, will sift through all the data and gossip to predict which of the candidates (the politics of Tony voting notwithstanding) will win the most coveted of theater awards.

Rock, Guirgis, Cannavale: The Mother with the Hat

Bobby Cannavale can cheer up because he just got a Tony nomination as Best Actor in a Play. With him here are his co-star Chris Rock and Tony-nominated playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis photo by Merlin Fahey

on Thirteen:

Friday, May 6th at 12:30 AM

on CUNY TV:
Sat., May 7th at 8:30, Sun., May 8th at 12:30 PM and Mon., May 9th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM

Tony nominees, actor Bobby Cannavaleand playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, join the brilliant Chris Rock to discuss Guirgis’ hit play The Motherf**ker with the Hat, about a struggling addict’s conflicted relationship with his AA sponsor.

Jerusalem

Mark Rylance as Johnny “Rooster” Byron in Jerusalem photo © Simon Annand

on Thirteen:
Friday, May 13th at 12:30

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, May 14thth at 8:30
Sunday, May 15th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, May 16th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM

Tony nominees, playwright Jez Butterworth and actor Mark Rylance, discuss Jerusalem, Butterworth’s new play in which Rylance plays one of the most outrageous characters ever to cross a Broadway stage. The work also explores the decline of human sensibilities in England’s industrial age and the difficulty of growing up and moving on.