The educational television station CUNY TV is re-envisioning its long-running theater program. “Theater: All the Moving Parts” will now be known as “Center Stage with Patrick Pacheco,” still a half-hour series offering a behind-the-scenes look at Broadway and the American theater.
Following “All the Moving Parts”’ seven-year run, “Center Stage” is set to premiere on Sept. 11. New episodes of “Center Stage” will air on CUNY TV every other Friday, but will typically be released online via YouTube a few days prior to their broadcast television premieres.
Episodes of “All the Moving Parts” typically centered on panel discussions that focused on a single topic, production or individual’s body of work. Broadway News executive editor Ruthie Fierberg frequently appeared as a guest. Moving forward, “Center Stage” will still present such conversations as well as magazine-style episodes, sometimes broken into multiple segments and featuring new reporting styles, like field interviews. Pacheco remains the host.
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“The deep dives aren’t going anywhere,” said Roberto Araujo, “Center Stage” senior producer and on-air contributor. “They’re still the heart of what we do. This is more about adding new ways to tell stories alongside them.” Araujo has served as the senior producer for “All the Moving Parts” since January.
“I am thrilled with the expanded coverage that ‘Center Stage’ provides as the American theater moves into an altered theatrical landscape through technological advances and a bold new generation of artists ready to meet the moment,” said Pacheco in a statement.
In addition to his work on “All the Moving Parts,” Pacheco has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Esquire.com. He also wrote “The American Theatre Wing, An Oral History,” co-wrote a stage musical adaptation of the film “Christmas in Connecticut” with Erik Jackson and collaborated with Chita Rivera on her book “Chita, A Memoir.”
CUNY TV is the 24-hour, noncommercial television station of the City University of New York. Locally producing a variety of arts and culture, educational and public affairs shows in English and Spanish, CUNY TV said it reaches over 7 million households in the New York metropolitan area.
