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Critics Charles Isherwood of "The New York Times," David Rooney of "Variety" and Linda Winer of "Newsday" review new Broadway productions.

Our panel of New York drama critics reviews Broadway shows from the spring, 2011 season. It includes: Adam Feldman of Time Out, Jacques le Sourd of WCBS Radio, Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal and Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post.

Sir Nicholas Hytner discusses the Tony-winning Best Play WAR HORSE, which was developed at the National Theatre of Great Britain, where he is the Artistic Director. Also, reporters Jesse Green, Michael Musto and Patrick Pacheco review this year's Tonys.

Actor and writer John Leguizamo discusses his new one-man show Ghetto Klown. Also, we present an encore of our 2004 interview with Larry Kramer on the art and politics behind his classic play The Normal Heart, now being revived 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,” forecast which of the candidates should win, and will win these most coveted of theater awards.

Actors Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Rory O’Malley and Andrew Rannells discuss working on the Broadway hit THE BOOK OF MORMON. This is followed by a conversation with the show’s inspiring choreographer and co-director Casey Nicholaw.Actors Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Rory O’Malley and Andrew Rannells discuss working on the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon. This is followed by a conversation with the show’s inspiring choreographer and co-director Casey Nicholaw.Actors Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Rory O’Malley and Andrew Rannells discuss working on the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon. This is followed by a conversation with the show’s inspiring choreographer and co-director Casey Nicholaw.

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.

Actors Chris Rock, Bobby Cannavale and playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis discuss Guirgis’ hit play THE MOTHER WITH THE HAT, about a struggling addict’s conflicted relationship with his AA sponsor.

The musical team behind the new Broadway hit Catch Me If You Can, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, stop by to perform a new song from the show.

Actor Tate Donovan and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire discuss Abaire's new play Good People, now on Broadway. Also, Timothy Crouse, co-librettist of Anything Goes, the splashy new revival of the 1934 musical classic by Cole Porter.

Actor/writer Harvey Fierstein, currently starring on Broadway in the revival of La Cage Aux Folles, the ground-breaking musical for which he wrote the Tony-winning libretto almost 30 years ago.

Peter Gelb, General Manager of The Metropolitan Opera, discusses his revitalization of this massive cultural organization's repertory with new productions of classic operas, staged by some of the most prominent theater directors of today.

Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, creators of the new musical, “The Book of Mormon,” are our guests. They discuss how they worked together to create this irreverent and crowd-pleasing Broadway show.

TV-talk pioneer Dick Cavett returns to share more true tales from his beloved TV interview series “The Dick Cavett Show,” among them the story behind his 1980 conversation with Richard Burton about Elizabeth Taylor.

TV-talk pioneer Dick Cavett discusses how he went from studying theater at Yale to hosting his late-night interview series on ABC. He remembers superlative guests from his many years on air, including Katherine Hepburn, Richard Burton and Janis Joplin.

Actress Dana Ivey and playwright Paul Rudnick discuss the 19th century British playwright Oscar Wilde and his classic work “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Also, AndrewAndrew report from a press preview of “Priscilla Queen of The Desert.”

F. Murray Abraham discusses his role as Shylock in the Theatre for a New Audience’s production of “The Merchant of Venice.” He also talks about his evolution from being a teenage “hoodlum” in to becoming an Oscar-winning actor.

Austin Pendleton gives us a master class in acting and directing while talking about his hit production of Chekhov's “Three Sisters,” at Off Broadway's Classic Stage Company.

Spring Season Preview 2011, A conversation about the spring's new Broadway shows, including “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." Panelists are Jesse Green of “NY Magazine,” Michael Musto of “The Village Voice,“ and Patrick Pacheco of “NY1.”

In the second part of our not-to-be-missed interview with Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, the couple discusses moving separately into successful "legit" careers while keeping their marriage of fifty-seven years together.

Stiller and Meara, Part 1 of 2. We welcome the great Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who discuss their early careers in improv and comedy, leading up to their big break on TV’s “Ed Sullivan Show.”

Critics Jacques le Sourd of CBS, John Simon of “The Westchester Guardian,” and Terry Teachout of “The Wall Street Journal” review new shows and discuss the changing role of critics in light of the decline of newspapers and the rise of the "blogosphere."

Raconteur and social commentator Colin Quinn discusses social issues and his one-man Broadway hit, “Long Story Short.” Then master magician Todd Robbins, of "Play Dead," a show he created with Teller of Penn & Teller, eats our holiday lights.

Writer/historian Ethan Mordden discusses his new book “The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication - From the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball” in which he profiles major leaders and opponents of NYC café society.

Veteran Broadway actor John Cullum, a star of Kander and Ebb’s last musical “The Scottsboro Boys,” discusses his career on Broadway of over 50 years. Also, we join the celebration of the 94th birthday of renowned critic and playwright, Eric Bentley.

We look at SHYLOCK, with Prof. James Shapiro, author of “Shakespeare and the Jews.” He discusses how this “Merchant of Venice” character has been portrayed over the past four centuries. Also, we pay tribute to the beloved actress Jill Clayburgh.

We are joined by actors Cherry Jones and Edward Hibbert, now appearing in the revival of George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.” They discuss this classic play, shut down by police in 1905 after one performance due to it’s then-scandalous theme.

Writer Lee Hall and actor Deka Walmsley discuss Hall’s new play “The Pitmen Painters,” about a group of miners who become artists. Also, film historian Jerry Carlson focuses on “Brief Encounter,” a classic 1944 film and 2010 multimedia stage production.

Playwright/actor Charles Busch discusses his new Off-Brodway hit “The Divine Sister,” about a highly unconventional group of nuns. Joining him are his costars Alison Fraser and Julie Halston.

Actress Elaine Stritch, now starring in the hit revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” gives a not-to-be-missed interview in which she discusses the pros and cons of being an 85 year-old star, giving 8 performances a week on Broadway.

Entertainment journalists Jesse Green, Michael Musto, and Patrick Pacheco look ahead to the new Broadway season. Among others, they discuss the new productions “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “Spider-Man” and “The Pee-wee Herman Show.”

Film historian Jerry Carlson on the current stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Also, author Ethan Mordden discusses his book “Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business.”

Film historian Robert Osborne, host of the Turner Classic Movie channel, comes by to discuss his favorite movies about the theater, as well as his choices for the most successful, and unsuccessful, stage to screen transfers in Hollywood history.

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of “The Fantasticks,” with lyricist/librettist Tom Jones, the show’s original co-star Rita Gardner and members of the current company: Erik Altemus, Edward Watts and Robert Felstein.

Playwright/cartoonist Jules Feiffer on his successful career, as well as his memoir, “Backing into Forward.”

Prof. James Shapiro of Columbia University discusses the question "who really wrote Shakespeare?" and the centuries-old “authorship” controversy surrounding the playwright, the subject of his new book, “Contested Will.”

In tribute to Michael Kuchwara, the longtime critic of the AP who died in May of 2010, we present an encore of our ‘08 panel on the decline of the role of print critics with Kuchwara and others. Next, a look back at the decade on Broadway, 2000-2009.

Reviews of recent Broadway productions by critics Joe Dziemianowicz of “The Daily News,” Charles Isherwood of “The NY Times,” John Simon of Bloomberg News and Elisabeth Vincentelli of the “NY Post.” Also, a Tony Awards red carpet report from AndrewAndrew.

Theater journalists Jesse Green of “New York Magazine,” Patrick Healy of “The NY Times,” and Michael Musto of “The Village Voice” review the Tony Awards ceremony and it's impact. Also, we are joined by Tony Lifetime Achievement Award winner Marian Seldes.

Actress Linda Lavin discusses her career in theater and her role in Donald Margulies's “Collected Stories;” also, choreographer Twyla Tharp details the process of creating her Sinatra-based musical for Broadway, “Come Fly Away.”

Jesse Green of “New York Magazine,” Michael Musto of “The Village Voice,” and Patrick Pacheco of the “LA Times” handicap this year's Tony Awards races and explain why this year's Tony night is different from all other Tony nights.

Baz Bamigboye, the UK's most influential theater columnist, reviews some of Broadway’s newest shows. Also, we discuss the acclaimed musical “Fela!,” with its director/choreographer Bill T. Jones, producer Stephen Hendel and star, Sahr Ngaujah.

Actors Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley Henderson and director Kenny Leon on their revival of “Fences,” August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

A conversation with the brilliant actor Christopher Walken, starring on Broadway in Martin McDonagh's “A Behanding in Spokane,” for which he received a Best Actor Tony nomination.

Billie Joe Armstrong, composer and lyricist of the new Broadway hit “American Idiot” and the production’s director Michael Mayer who had the vision to transform Green Day’s rock opera into a Tony-nominated musical.

Writer/director Alex Timbers and composer Michael Friedman discuss “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” their "emo" musical about the 7th President of the US. Also, UK critic Mark Shenton and London’s notorious West End Whingers review Broadway’s latest fare.

A conversation with producer Theodore Mann, author of the memoir “Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theater with Circle in the Square.” Also, reporter Patrick Healy of “The NY Times,” who shares his tactics for covering the Broadway beat.

Author Robert Hofler of “Variety” discusses his new biography “Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr,” about the rise and fall of the powerful and flamboyant Broadway and film producer.

Actresses Janeane Garofalo and Carol Kane talk about appearing in the Off-Broadway hit  “Love, Loss, and What I Wore.” Also, Jesse Green, Michael Musto, Patrick Pacheco single out the highlights and lowlights from the previous decade on Broadway.

Composer/lyricist Maury Yeston performs more of his compositions, including songs from, “Titanic!” and “Grand Hotel.”