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Bill Irwin's favorite comfort food is mango. Find out what else he told us after his recent appearance on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Bill Irwin and Bryan Doerries, artistic director of Outside the Wire, discuss their very recent trip to Guantanamo Bay, where a four-star general there has made Prometheus Bound mandatory reading for detention workers. Outside the Wire uses theater and a variety of other media to address public health and social issues. Its most widely known project, Theater of War, has presented more than 150 readings of Sophocles’ Ajax and Philoctetes at over 50 military sites throughout the United States, Europe, and Cuba.

The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," stars Bill Irwin as Vladimir and John Goodman as Pozzo. "Waiting for Godot" is playing at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street) through July 12. Ticket information here.