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Host Patrick Pacheco welcomes "Washington Post" theater critic Peter Marks to discuss the 2019-2020 theater season and the role Broadway can play in the time of national crisis. Productions like "Slave Play", "Tina"," A Soldier's Play", "West Side Story" and "The Inheritance" are discussed in light of the Black Lives Matters and civil rights protests today. Others like "American Utopia", "Girl From North Country" and "Freestyle Love Supreme" also speak to the American moment today.

Patrick Pacheco says, “Peter is an astute critic who goes to the theater to have his assumptions challenged and it was a pleasure to talk with him about that in today's roiled environment. As an example, he admitted that "Slave Play", the explosive and highly controversial drama by Jeremy O. Harris, caused him to examine his conscience and he hailed it as one of the best ways to engage in the national discourse on race."

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