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Patrick Pacheco sits down with Helder Guimarães, the Portuguese-born sleight of hand magician whose one-man show The Hope Theory is now playing Off-Broadway at New York City Center Stage Two. Directed by EGOT winner Frank Marshall, the show weaves together personal storytelling and illusion to explore immigration, belonging and the nature of hope, drawing on Guimarães' own experience arriving in America in 2007. Then senior producer Roberto Araujo goes inside two of the season's most anticipated productions: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Jocelyn Bioh's sharply funny Broadway debut about colorism, beauty standards and belonging at a Ghanaian boarding school, with playwright Bioh and cast members DeNée Benton, Patina Miller and Jasmine Amy Rogers; and The Heart, the new Roundabout Theatre Company musical that follows a single heart over 24 hours, from the worst day of one family's life to the best day of another's, with cast and creative team members sharing what the story of organ donation and generosity has given them.

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