The Producers of SMASH

Michael Riedel with Anjelica Huston in Smash (photo by Will Hart/NBC)

on Thirteen:
Fri., March 30th at 1:00 AM

on CUNY TV:
Sat., March 31st at 8:30 PM
Sun., April 1st at 12:30 PM and
Mon., April 2nd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM

Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan discuss their careers bringing musical theater to film and television, most notably, their innovative new NBC TV series Smash, the show about the making of a Broadway musical. As it happens,Theater Talk co-host Michael Riedel is appearing as a “mean-spirited” Broadway columnist on the otherwise fictitious program in April.

VENUS IN FUR: Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy

Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy in Venus in Fur (photo © 2011 Joan Marcus)

on Thirteen:
Fri., April 6th at 1:30 AM

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

Actors Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy come by to discuss their roles in David Ives’ provocative play Venus in Fur. Nina won the prestigious Clarence Derwent Award, among others, for her performance in the original 2010 Classic Stage Company production. Now, she is repeating this role at the Lyceum Theatre, again directed by Walter Bobbie, with Dancy as her leading man. The pair talk about how they worked together to recreate the impact of this drama on Broadway, which was inspired in part by the 19th-century novella by Leopold von Sacher-Mason, called Venus in Furs.

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