Donald Margulies and Eric Bogosian

Playwright Donald Margulies – author of Time Stands Still, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway with Laura Linney, Brian D’Arcy James, and Alicia Silverstone – taped an interview for Theater Talk, with another one of the play’s stars, Eric Bogosian, a well-known playwright himself.

In the Greenroom, Bogosian was chatting about his wife’s (director Jo Bonney) production of a new play by Darci Picoult, Lil’s 90th, just closed at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven with Lois Smith and David Margulies in the cast.

Bogosian is relishing playing the part of a New York photo editor (“A genuine nice guy” versus his customary “edgy New York Jewish” types) in Margulies’s new play about two couples, one of which is comprised of journalists who are recuperating from covering wars, and the other which is in the heady, early days of a relationship that can’t logically last. Margulies says the play is about “people trying to live a moral life” given society’s conflicts at home and abroad. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends, Sight Unseen, and What’s Wrong With This Picture? Margulies has been teaching playwriting to undergraduates at Yale for 20 years while continuing to write and be produced in New York and around the country.