'A Doll's House' on Broadway, The Frick Collection, Ben Okri's 'A Fire in My Head,' Susan Wels' 'An Assassin in Utopia'

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Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain stars in the new Broadway adaptation of the classic feminist play, "A Doll's House." Chastain and plawright Amy Herzog join us to discuss the new, incredibly pared back production which is now running through June 4th. 

In late 2020, The Frick Collection decided to take up residence in the Whitney’s former Madison Avenue home and The Frick Madison was born. Now, the local arts museum is shaking things up a bit. We receive updates from Aimee Ng, curator at The Frick Collection, about current exhibitions, changes to their programming and their expansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

For over thirty years, the work of the Booker Prize winning British-Nigerian author Ben Okri, known for his 1991 novel, The Famished Road, has gone unpublished in the U.S. Recently, two of Okri's works have been published in this country, including his latest poetry collection, A Fire in My Head. The collection includes poems about 2020's racial justice protests, the Grenfell Tower disaster, and the pandemic. Okri joins to discuss and read from the collection.

When the Oneida Community was first formed in upstate New York, it was intended as liberating utopia. But from that community came a man who would go on to assassinate President James Garfield. Author Susan Wels joins us to discuss her new book, An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder.