Peter Hermann to Join Liev Schreiber on Broadway in Talk Radio

Peter Hermann will play radio producer Dan Woodruff in the upcoming Broadway production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, starring Liev Schreiber. Performances begin at the Longacre Theatre on February 9, 2007, directed by Robert Falls Shining City, Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, the original off-Broadway production of Bogosian's suburbia. Talk Radio is scheduled to open on Broadway on February 25.

Hermann was most recently seen as Lawyer Trevor Langan on TV's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit which stars his wife, actress Mariska Hargitay and as Jeremy Glick in the feature film United 93. His stage credits include Titus Andronicus, Eurydice, Hot Keys and the 2001 Broadway staging of Judgment at Nuremberg. Other film credits include Swim Fan and The Treatment. Hermann's varied resume includes the Yale School Of Drama and stints as a special education teacher in the South Bronx for Teach For America and a fact checker for Vanity Fair.

Talk Radio centers around one evening in the life of controversial and malicious radio host Barry Champlain. It debuted at the Public Theater in 1987 in a production starring Bogosian, who later adapted the play and starred in a 1988 film version directed by Oliver Stone.

Schreiber's upcoming appearances in the television drama CSI will not affect his participation in Talk Radio. CBS announced last week that the Tony Award-winning actor will play the recurring role of a seasoned CSI who has established a strong reputation in various police departments across the country before joining the veteran team at the Las Vegas Crime Lab. He will first appear in the series' twelfth episode, to be broadcast in January 2007. Schreiber will reportedly be subbing for series star William Peterson, a Chicago stage veteran who plans to spend the month of December starring in Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol at Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I.