Talk Radio: Erik Jensen joins cast

Erik Jensen will make make his Broadway debut when he takes to the stage as Stu Noonan in Eric Bogosian's drama, Talk Radio, which begins previews at the Longacre Theatre on 9 Feb 2007.

Jensen joins the previously announced Liev Schreiber (Barry Champlain), Peter Hermann (Dan Woodruff ) and Stephanie March (Linda MacArthur).

Jensen is the writer of The Exonerated, which played off-Broadway at 45 Bleecker from Oct 2002 - Mar 2004, in which he later starred when it was made into a TV movie in 2005. Off-Broadway Jensen played Costa Astrakhan in the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Y2K which had 46 peformancers at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Talk Radio: an acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love life and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who have been angered by his forthright opinions.

Talk Radio was first produced off-Broadway at the Public Theatre in 1987 with Eric Bogosian (playwright) in the star role. It was made into a film in 1988, directed by Oliver Stone, in which Bogosian once again playing the lead character.

Eric Bogosian�s work includes 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffee,' 'SubUrbia,' 'Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead,' 'Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll,' and 'Drinking in America' (Drama Desk Award). Talk Radio was a Nominated Finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This is Bogosian�s first play to be produced on Broadway.

Set design is by Mark Wendland, with costumes by Laura Bauer, lighting by Christopher Akerlind and sound by Richard Woodbury.

Talk Radio is being produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, and JAM Theatricals.