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Schreiber to Tune Into Bogosian's Talk Radio on Broadway
by BWW News Desk
Liev Schreiber, last seen at the Delacorte Theatre in Macbeth, will headline an upcoming Broadway production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, according to The New York Times. The show is slated to begin its run at the Longacre Theatre in February.
Schreiber will star as Barry Champlain, an aggressively opinionated Cleveland radio host who is confronted with both racial hatred and commercial pressures as his show is about to go national. Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Jam Theatricals will produce Talk Radio, which will be directed by Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls (Shining City, Aida). Although frequently produced Off-Broadway and regionally, the production will mark the first Bogosian play to hit Broadway. The playwright will not update, but will make small changes to the play, which premiered at the Public Theater in 1987.
Bogosian played Barry in the original Off-Broadway production, as well as in Oliver Stone's 1988 film adaptation (which co-starred Ellen Greene, Alec Baldwin, Zach Grenier and others).
Schreiber, who most recently won a Tony award on Broadway portraying Richard Roma in the Glengarry Glen Ross revival, recently took on the title role of Macbeth for the Public Theater. He has previously been seen on Broadway in In the Summer House and Betrayal. An acclaimed interpreted of Shakespeare, he has appeared off-Broadway in Henry V, Othello, Hamlet, Cymbeline, and The Tempest. Schreiber's screen credits include the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Scream 3, Hamlet, Sphere, A Walk on the Moon and Big Night. A film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel Everything is Illuminated marked his directorial debut.
Bogosian's other plays include Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Pounding Nails in the Floor, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Drinking in America and Fun House. He has also acted in several other of his own plays, as well as in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and The Exonerated, and in films such as Wonderland and Ararat. He also currently plays a recurring role on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." His SubUrbia--which has also been filmed--will be revived by Second Stage Theatre next month. He has also published several novels.
Schreiber to Tune Into Bogosian's Talk Radio on Broadway
by BWW News Desk
Liev Schreiber, last seen at the Delacorte Theatre in Macbeth, will headline an upcoming Broadway production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, according to The New York Times. The show is slated to begin its run at the Longacre Theatre in February.
Schreiber will star as Barry Champlain, an aggressively opinionated Cleveland radio host who is confronted with both racial hatred and commercial pressures as his show is about to go national. Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Jam Theatricals will produce Talk Radio, which will be directed by Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls (Shining City, Aida). Although frequently produced Off-Broadway and regionally, the production will mark the first Bogosian play to hit Broadway. The playwright will not update, but will make small changes to the play, which premiered at the Public Theater in 1987.
Bogosian played Barry in the original Off-Broadway production, as well as in Oliver Stone's 1988 film adaptation (which co-starred Ellen Greene, Alec Baldwin, Zach Grenier and others).
Schreiber, who most recently won a Tony award on Broadway portraying Richard Roma in the Glengarry Glen Ross revival, recently took on the title role of Macbeth for the Public Theater. He has previously been seen on Broadway in In the Summer House and Betrayal. An acclaimed interpreted of Shakespeare, he has appeared off-Broadway in Henry V, Othello, Hamlet, Cymbeline, and The Tempest. Schreiber's screen credits include the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Scream 3, Hamlet, Sphere, A Walk on the Moon and Big Night. A film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel Everything is Illuminated marked his directorial debut.
Bogosian's other plays include Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Pounding Nails in the Floor, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Drinking in America and Fun House. He has also acted in several other of his own plays, as well as in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and The Exonerated, and in films such as Wonderland and Ararat. He also currently plays a recurring role on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." His SubUrbia--which has also been filmed--will be revived by Second Stage Theatre next month. He has also published several novels.
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