Lynn Nottage: Unexpected Optimist
Notes from America with Kai Wright
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Is This the United States of Anxiety?
This is the united states of anxiety. This week i'm talking with tu time por surprise winning playwright lin noddege about her remarkable career and the multiple shows she has helped create for this season. Her show, clyde's, was based on research she did in reading pennsylvania, a russ belt town that has experienced a great deal of pain with the end of the manufacturing economy. That research also informed her earlier plac sweat, for which she won one of her two pulletzers. Sweat debute in two thousand 15 and made it to broadway two years later. And by that point, the story felt precions. You're thinking a lot about working people
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