The Roundtable with Robert Bannon

One of our favorite events of the year is here! Tribeca Film Festival rolled into NYC and we were there! Adrienne Garzillo hit the red carpet for our first day of coverage!

We start off with the co-founder of the festival Jane Rosenthal. Then it is off to Paradise Records to talk to Logic, Kevin Smith, David Krumholtz, and more!

We had the chance to step on the carpet for Storytellers with Jim Gaffigan and Michael Ian Black. See what they have to say. Then it was off to "She Runs The World" to meet Allyson Felix, Olympic Superstar.

We finsh this day with the cast and creatives of a new film called "Dog Of God!" We love to support foreign up and coming film makers as well!

It is an epic lineup you do not want to miss! Tomorrow! Day 2! Riz Ahmed, Lily Jane, Jasmine Crockett, Cory Booker, Ty Dolla $ign, Slick Rick, and more!

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Barbara Walters, she didn’t just report the news, she made news. She was a true American original - and trailblazer who broke ground for women. Now, this powerful documentary from Imagine Documentaries and ABC News Studios gives viewers an intimate and raw look at her astonishing career, personal life, and the challenges she faced trying to balance it all as a woman in a male dominated industry. Barbara Walters, in her own words, also reflects on the high price of fame and the legacy she hoped to inspire.

The new feature-length documentary produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries, will premiere Monday, June 23, on Hulu in the U.S. and later this year on Disney+ in select territories internationally.

From the producing team behind the 2024 Emmy® Award-winning Best Documentary, “Jim Henson Idea Man,” this definitive documentary, directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker and journalist Jackie Jesko, examines the broadcast legend’s pivotal role in the history of journalism and her pioneering example for women in the industry.

The film features unaired footage from ABC’s extensive archives and interviews with people who knew and worked with the broadcast legend, including Cindy Adams, Joy Behar, Connie Chung, Martin Clancy, Andy Cohen, Katie Couric, Peter Gethers, Lori Klein, Cynthia McFadden, Bette Midler, Victor Neufeld, David Sloan, Katie Nelson Thomson, Chris Vlasto and Oprah Winfrey.

Director Jackie Jesko joins us to tell us all about the legend that is Barbara and how this came to be!

"Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything" begins streaming on 6/23 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+!

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Award-winning actress Nadège August, who currently stars as "Joan" on the BET+ original series Tyler Perry's RUTHLESS,whose highly-anticipated Season 5 episodes premiered is out joins us for her Broadway Debut!

The series, a spin-off of "The Oval," follows "Ruth Truesdale" as she is forced to play nice with a scandalous, religious cult of powerful, sex-crazed fanatics in the hope of freeing herself and her daughter.Nadège portrays "Joan",  the Rakadushi’s quirky accountant on the show. The character was introduced as a recurring guest part in 2020, with producers so impressed with what Nadége did with the role, that she was soon elevated to Series Regular, including her dramatic pivotal arc in S5. 

She can be also be seen in Nickelodeon's Young Dylan as the titular character's wayward mom, Darlene Wilson. She is the creator, producer and host of the edu-taining podcast "What The Fockery?". Her web series, Bougie Dilemma is still garnering views on YouTube. Wait til you hear who she has talked to and about what?

A powerhouse on stage, August won the 2019 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama for David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer winning play,Good People. She received her first NAACP Theatre Awards nomination in 2008 for her portrayal of Abbe Putnam in Eugene O'Neill's, Desire Under the Elms, at The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. Another theatre nod came in 2016 for her leading role in the West Coast Premiere of Dominique Morisseau's play, Sunset Baby.

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Rachel Israel's THE FLOATERS, which had its world premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival this week is out topic on the Roundtable today!.

Directed by Rachel Israel (Keep the Change), the film was written by siblings, Becky, Lily, and Shai Korman, along with Andra Gordon (Castle in the Ground, The Other Half), Amelia Brain, and Brent Hoff (Pranksta).

It has an incredible ensemble cast consisting of Jackie Tohn (Nobody Wants This, GLOW), Sarah Podemski (Reservation Dogs, Resident Alien), Nina Bloomgarden (It's What's Inside, The Idea of You), and Judah Lewis (The Babysitter, Christmas Chronicles) join us to tell us all about it!

The Jewish summer camp comedy is a hilarious and beautiful exploration of campers and staff trying to navigate the social norms at camp and exploring their own lives. Whether it's their first summer at camp or they've been coming since they could walk, the film shows the challenges and joys of entering a new community outside of your hometown and finding what makes your own identity. It's a beautiful exploration for people of all ages and a lighthearted feature about Jewish joy. 

For More Info: www.floatersmovie.com

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We are FANS of Archie! David Archuleta is back! He has new music, a new message, and he is singing and spreading PRIDE wherever he goes. In our chat, he talks this new "flirty" era that he is living in with his new single "Creme Brulee" that is now out! He has actually been putting out a lot of music this month! We get the full run down!

Plus David delivers his message to the LGBTQIA+ community this Pride and everyday! Is the rumor true that David is working on a memoir? We ask and find out! Plus he just announced a brand new tour! Our Platinum Selling Superstar Friend to the show David Archuleta is back and talking to us here on The Roundtable!

For More Info: davidarchuleta.com

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Lewis Flinn is a composer and lyricist known for his catchy melodies and innovative scores. His acclaimed Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones debuted in 2011 (with a book by Douglas Carter Beane) and also ran at The Dallas Theater Center and Off-Broadway with the Transport Group. It is currently licensed through Concord Theatricals. Other current projects with Beane include Hood (Asolo Theater 2022, Dallas Theater Center, Best Musical 0f Dallas 2017) and the upcoming To Wong Foo (Hope Mill Theater, Manchester UK). Other musicals include Like Love (NYMF) and The Winner (Lyric Stage, Dallas).

Flinn has also composed scores and songs for over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions including TONY nominated The Little Dog Laughed, Fairycakes, Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die, The Divine Sister, The Tribute Artist (Drama Desk Nom for Best Music) and The Third Story. Other theaters include Playwright’s Horizons, MCC, South Coast Rep, The Geffen Playhouse, The Cleveland Play House, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theater (Wendy Wasserstein’s Old Money), 2nd Stage Theater, Barrington Stage Company and the Drama Dept. He has been a guest artist at Cornell, Dartmouth, The Boston Conservatory, The Royal Academy London and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A compilation of his “curtain call” cues was recently released and available on all streaming platforms.

In the world of TV and film, he recently composed the score and title songs for Charles Busch’s “The 6th Reel” currently on Apple TV. He also composed the themes and music for the TV shows Power of 10 and Million Dollar Password nationally and internationally as well as scores for dozens of national commercials.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in New York with husband, Douglas Carter Beane, and their children, Cooper and Gaby, and dogs, Lucky and Albert.

His show is Friday June 20th, 2025! For Tickets: www.thebeechman.com

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Following smash hit runs in London's West End, the WhatsOnStage ‘BEST NEW MUSICAL’ winner, Heathers the Musical is heading back to NYC this summer. 

Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is  a matter of life and death,  and Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she's unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers,  her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That is until JD, the  mysterious teen rebel, teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody…

Wickedly funny and with dazzling book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, HEATHERS THE MUSICAL is back! Get ready for big fun this summer...Westerberg High is calling!

We have all the cast & all of the creatives to tell us all about it! Theatre Fans! This one is for YOU!

For Tickets: heathersthemusical.com

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Everybody look around, there’s reason to rejoice! The Tony Award®-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm is back.

Conjuring up an Oz unlike anything ever seen before, the creative team is helmed by director Schele Williams (The Notebook, revival of Disney’s Aida) and includes choreographer JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”), William F. Brown (book), Charlie Smalls (music & lyrics), Amber Ruffin (additional material), Joseph Joubert (music supervision, orchestrations, & music arrangements), Allen René Louis (vocal & music arrangements), Adam Blackstone and Terence Vaughn (dance music arrangements), and Paul Byssainthe Jr. (music direction).

We have the star herself! Dorothy is here! Dana Cimone comes into the iconic role and has hit the road! Coming to you live for the first time from Atlanta, Georgia! Dana is so thrilled and honored to be making her debut as Dorothy in The Wiz. We catch up to talk about how the role came to be, how she is celebrating her 21st Birthday, and how you too can find home even on the road!

The Wiz comes to the Fisher Theatre in Detroit Jun 17 - 29, 2025! For tickets make sure to visit www.BroadwayInDetroit.com

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 Satori Shakoor, a dynamic, multi-disciplinary artist and cultural force whose latest work, “Confessions of a Menopausal Femme Fatale,” is a bold, hilarious, and deeply honest stand-up storytelling concert film tackling menopause, aging, and womanhood. The film was recorded at Detroit Public Theatre and is being released June 12 on Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and GooglePlay.

Satori is the host of “Detroit Performs Live” on Detroit PBS and the founder and Executive Producer of The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers®, an internationally recognized storytelling platform she launched in 2012. From her roots as a background singer (Bride of Funkenstein) with George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic to being a 2017 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and emceeing the 2024 Kresge Foundation Centennial event where she introduced keynote speaker President Barack Obama, Satori’s journey is as rich and layered as the stories she tells.

Now, Satori is breaking new ground with her bold and comedic one-woman show, “Confessions of a Menopausal Femme Fatale,” where she confronts the realities of aging, womanhood, and life as a Black woman—transforming silence and stigma into empowerment and laughter.

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What is Bowl EP? Well...

Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares, and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcising a demon. With live skateboarding and original music, enter Bowl EP:

a skate park
in the middle of a wasteland
at the edge of the galaxy

Bowl EP now at The Vineyard in NYC is a critic darling, daring piece of new work and the star is here! Oghenero Gbaje comes to the Roundtable. He talks this role, skateboarding, his career as an actor, writer, musician, and rapper. We talk how they built a skate park for this show, what his thoughts are of theatre, and what is next!

For tickets: vineyardtheatre.org

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