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This edition: F. Murray Abraham


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Original tape date: January 28, 2011. First aired: February 26, 2011.

The eminent actor discusses his role as Shylock in The Theatre for a New Audience's production of ”The Merchant of Venice,” soon to be touring the USA. He also talks about his evolution from being a teenage "hoodlum" in an El Paso street gang in to becoming an Academy Award-winning actor, as well as a Professor of Theater at Brooklyn College.

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