'As You Like It,' 'Better Call Saul' Series Finale, 'Katrina Babies' Doc on HBO Max, 'The Kite Runner' on Broadway

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 18, 2022

Closing out the 60th anniversary of Free Shakespeare in the Park this summer, The Delacorte Theater is staging Public Works' musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery, with original music and lyrics also written by Taub. Woolery, as well as the production's lead Rebecca Naomi Jones (Rosalind), join us to discuss the show. "As You Like It" runs until September 11.

Vulture TV writer Jen Chaney joins to discuss the final season of the series Better Call Saul.

New Orleans native Ed Buckles was 13 when Hurricane Katrina hit his city. Seventeen years later his new film, Katrina Babies, documents how the disaster changed the trajectory of the lives of kids who were also his age at the time. He joins to discuss the documentary which premieres on HBO Max on Wednesday, Aug. 24.

Khaled Hosseini's wildly popular 2003 novel The Kite Runner has now been adapted into a Broadway. Adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and starring Amir Arison as a young boy growing up in Kabul just before the onset of war in Afghanistan, and his complicated relationship with his young servant and friend, Hassan. Spangler and Arison join us to discuss the show, which plays at the Hayes theater through October 30th.

This episode is guest-hosted by David Furst.

 

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