"Theater Talk" is set to go international. The acclaimed PBS talk show, which features interviews with top theatre celebrities and writers, will premiere on Mountain Lake PBS on Saturday, July 6. Mountain Lake PBS beams out of Plattsburgh, New York, reaching 1.6 million viewers in a huge broadcast range. The area covered extends from the Vermont and New York Adirondack regions to Southern Canada, including such Canadian cities as Burlington, Montreal and Quebec City.
The first Mountain Lake PBS broadcast of the program will air at 11:30 PM and is titled "The Best of Theater Talk." Hosted by New York Post theatre columnist Michael Riedel and producer Susan Haskins, "Theater Talk" airs in the metropolitan area on Friday nights on WNET/Thirteen.
—By Andrew Gans