Theater Talk: “Oslo” and The Return of “Dear Evan Hansen” Creatives

From the play “Oslo” are 4 Tony Award nominees: playwright J.T. Rogers, director Bartlett Sher, and actors Jefferson Mays and Jennifer Ehle who portray real-life Norwegian diplomats Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen who arranged the Israeli-Palestinian top-secret meetings that culminated in the signing of the historic 1993 Oslo Accords.

Next, "Dear Evan Hansen" librettist Steven Levenson and composer/lyricists Benj Pasek & Justin Paul return to our piano to discuss more of their work. Pasek & Paul perform songs including "Sincerely, Me" from "Dear Evan Hansen," "Some Kinda Time" from their score for the musical "Dogfight," and "City of Stars," their Academy Award-winning song from the film "La La Land."
Taped: 04-21-17

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.

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[jacquelynseiler]

Why couldn’t Benj pasek be in la la land instead?? That was so wonderful I don’t think I ever want to hear the original version of city of stars anymore😍👏👏

[dmc]

Jennifer Ehle is amazing, as is Jefferson Mays. I would love to see this.