Talk Radio: Tony nominated revival plays final performance on Broadway

Director Robert Falls limited engagement production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, starring Liev Schreiber, plays its last performance on Broadway on 24 Jun 2007. The show played 121 performances and 29 previews.

The drama opened at the Longacre Theatre on 11 Mar 2007, following previews from 15 Feb 2007.

The play opened to mostly positive notices: "It allows its star (Schreiber) to grab an audience by the lapels and shake it into submission." (New York Tmes); "Schreiber is dynamic, dangerous and doesn't make a single false move. (New York Daily News); "Has the weary air of a one-trick pony." (New York Post); "It's Schreiber the customers pay to see, and he knocks Bogosian's spitball out of the Broadway park." (Star-Ledger).

The drama was nominated for two Tony awards, Best revival and Best Actor in a Play (Liev Schreiber).

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.

Directed by Robert Falls, Talk Radio featured Liev Schreiber (Barry Champlain), Peter Hermann (Dan Woodruff), Stephanie March (Linda MacArthur), Michael Laurence (Stu Noonan), Sebastian Stan, Christine Pedi, Barbara Rosenblat and Adam Sietz and Cornell Womack.

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

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 played the lead character.

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