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NPR Fresh Air: 2 Broadway Stars Grapple With Illness And Uncertainty (October 14, 2020)

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Married Broadway stars Danny Burstein and Rebecca Luker both contracted COVID in the spring, just as theaters went dark. Burstein was starring in ‘Moulin Rouge’ at the time. Burstein’s case was severe and he nearly died. Luker’s case was mild, but it came soon after she had been diagnosed with read more


NPR Throughline: The Shadows of the Constitution

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https://www.npr.org/2020/11/11/933825483/the-shadows-of-the-constitution The Constitution is like America’s secular bible, our sacred founding document. In her play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck goes through a process of discovering what the document is really about – who wrote it, who it was for, who it protected and who it didn’t. read more


Recode Decode: James Corden

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In this best-of episode originally published in October 2016, Recode’s Kara Swisher talks to the host of The Late Late Show, James Corden, about redesigning a talk show for the YouTube generation. He talks about the viral video hits that broke out from the show such as “Carpool Karaoke,” his complicated read more


The New York Times: Bringing the Theater Back to Life

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Three months into Broadway’s shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, Michael Paulson, a theater reporter for The New York Times, got a call from a theater in western Massachusetts — they planned to put on “Godspell,” a well-loved and much-performed musical from 1971, in the summer.Today, we explore how, in read more