Actor Richard Thomas talks about his role in Terrence McNally’s double bill of new plays, The Stendhal Syndrome. Then hear more about what’s currently onstage in New York when Sarah Jones joins us for a discussion. She’s starring in her own one-woman show, bridge & tunnel, now at the 45 Bleecker Street Theater. And essayist and native New Yorker Phillip Lopate on Manhattan’s waterfront. He writes about everything from the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge to gentrification to shoreline architecture in his latest book, Waterfront.
Richard Thomas
You might remember actor Richard Thomas as "John Boy Walton," but he's now known to theatergoers as a highly regarded classical stage actor. He's here to talk about his role in Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome, consisting of a pair of new plays: Full Frontal Nudity and Prelude & Liebestod. ...
Sarah Jones
In her new one-woman play, bridge & tunnel, Sarah Jones plays ten different characters, each one a foreign national living in the tri-state area. Characters include Mrs. Ling, a Chinese mother adjusting to her daughter’s sexuality, a Mexican construction worker whose lover couldn't cross the border, and Mohammed, a Pakistani ...
Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate's new book is Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan. In his latest, he writes that "Manhattan is almost pathologically averse to letting you wander to the river's edge and get close enough to touch the water."
» Find out more on Lopate's book
Music: ...
» Find out more on Lopate's book
Music: ...

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