Theater Talk: "The Crucible"

We focus on the new Broadway production of "Arthur Miller's The Crucible" (nominated for a Best Revival of a Play TONY Award). Our guests are TONY-nominated director Ivo van Hove with actors Sophie Okonedo (nominated as Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Elizabeth Proctor) and Ben Whishaw who plays her husband, the man whose adulterous affair with a teenager sets the gruesome events of the play in motion. Van Hove and his cast members discuss the director's unique take on this classic American drama and how they worked together to give Arthur Miller's tale of the mass hysteria and brutal injustice during the Salem witch trials, renewed life on Broadway. Taped: 03-25-16 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.tv.cuny.edu/show/theatertalk