EPISODE · May 12, 2023 · 32 MIN
David Auburn — SUMMER, 1976
from The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers · host David Auburn, Dan Rubins
Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.Summer, 1976 is playing on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Find out more at www.manhattantheatreclub.comIf you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Theatermania and Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.The Present Stage supports the national nonprofit Hear Your Song. If you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org
What this episode covers
On the third episode of The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers, Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner David Auburn (Proof) joins the podcast to dive into Summer, 1976, his third Broadway production with Manhattan Theatre Club and a meditation on friendship. We explore where this play fits into Auburn's larger body of work, how collaborations with actors Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht and director Daniel Sullivan bring a script with no stage directions to life, and which playwright's influence Auburn has come to embrace over the course of his career.
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