Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Basic Facts

Talk Radio By Eric Bogosian

Basics

Full-Length play written in English without acts, scenes, or intermission

7 m., 2 f., plus offstage voices.
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Setting: 1987, a radio studio (WTLK) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/theater/reviews/12talk.html?pagewanted=2

Running time: 1 HOUR, 45 MIN.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933046.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&query=talk+radio

Genre

Comedy
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"passionate, funny, sharply-written drama"
http://www.goldstar.com/events/los-angeles-ca/talk-radio.html

Playwright - Biography

Eric Bogosian (Playwright) In addition to Talk Radio (originally produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1987), is the author of the plays subUrbia (LCT), and Griller (Goodman), both directed by Robert Falls, Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theatre) and six solo performances (Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and others), which he starred in Off-Broadway between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie Awards. He adapted and starred in Oliver Stone's film of Talk Radio (Berlin Film Festival – Silver Bear Award), and wrote the screenplay for Richard Linklater's film version of subUrbia. Mr. Bogosian is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, starring in Robert Altman's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Under Siege 2, Atom Egoyan's Ararat and Wonderland. Currently he stars on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" on NBC. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eric Bogosian is married to director Jo Bonney. www.ericbogosian.com

http://www.talkradioonbroadway.com/creative.php

Publication
Available for purchase from Samuel French, Inc. at http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1565

Available for purchase at http://www.amazon.com/ in The Essential Bogosian: Talk Radio, Drinking in America, FunHouse and Men Inside (Paperback)

Rights

Samuel French, Inc.
45 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10010-2751
(866) 598-8449
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Professional: professional@samuelfrench.com
Amateur/Nonmusical: amateur@samuelfrench.com

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