Life in the Rust Belt on Broadway

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 29, 2017

The playwright Lynn Nottage and the actor Michelle Wilson talk about their play “Sweat,” which just debuted on Broadway, which chronicles the lives of factory workers in an economically-depressed steel-belt city in Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.

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