Talk Radio (TCG Edition) - by Eric Bogosian (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know." -John Hellpern, New York Observer

"Gut-grabbing... the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting." -Ben Brantley, New York Times

"More timely today than it was twenty years ago... Radio crackles with intensity." -Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

"Hypnotic! Both as an actor's tour-de-force and a stinging cultural analysis." -David Rooney, Variety

This is the fully revised version of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, his breakthrough 1987 Public Theater hit, which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was adapted to film by Oliver Stone, and was revived on Broadway in 2007 in celebration of the play's twentieth anniversary.

One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian's solo-performance career.

Review Quotes

"A gut-grabbing revival. Live Schreiber is playing Barry Champlain, an abrasive radio talk show host who, as another character puts it, has seen the face of God 'in the mirror.' In the course of one eventful night, Barry will be forced to confront another, less august image of himself... the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting. Like the original production, which starred Mr. Bogosian as Barry, it allows the star to grab an audience by the lapels and shake it into submission." -- Ben Brantley, New York Times

"More timely today than it was twenty years ago... Radio crackles with intensity." -- Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

"Pure Theatrical Adrenaline." -- Time Out New York

"Imagine Lenny Bruce at the height of his notoriety becoming a popular talk show host and you may begin to have an idea of the whiplash intensity and black, hard edged cynicism of Talk Radio." -- Mel Gussow, New York Times

"Hypnotic! Both as an actor's tour-de-force and a stinging cultural analysis." -- David Rooney, Variety

"Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know." -- John Hellpern, New York Observer

"A gut-grabbing revival. Live Schreiber is playing Barry Champlain, an abrasive radio talk show host who, as another character puts it, has seen the face of God 'in the mirror.' In the course of one eventful night, Barry will be forced to confront another, less august image of himself... the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting. Like the original production, which starred Mr. Bogosian as Barry, it allows the star to grab an audience by the lapels and shake it into submission." -- Ben Brantley, New York Times

"More timely today than it was twenty years ago... Radio crackles with intensity." -- Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

"Pure Theatrical Adrenaline." -- Time Out New York

"Imagine Lenny Bruce at the height of his notoriety becoming a popular talk show host and you may begin to have an idea of the whiplash intensity and black, hard edged cynicism of Talk Radio." -- Mel Gussow, New York Times

"Hypnotic! Both as an actor's tour-de-force and a stinging cultural analysis." -- David Rooney, Variety

"Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know." -- John Hellpern, New York Observer

About the Author

Eric Bogosian is the OBIE-award winning writer and performer of "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll", and "Drinking in America", as well as his plays "Suburbia" and "Talk Radio", both made into major motion pictures.