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Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Kurt Andersen and Theresa Rebeck discuss her new play about the most acclaimed actress of her day, Sarah Bernhardt. Justine Bateman’s new book examines being inside — and then outside — the fame bubble. A listener finds something surprising inside a book at a used bookstore — an inscription from the famous author of the book to an even more famous novelist. And how New York hip-hop pirate radio station WBAD rose — and fell.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.0	I'm Kurt Anand.
0:10.7	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.0	This first level of garden.
0:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.2	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.9	Very well done.
0:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.7	Studio 360.
0:27.8	It's good. Anderson.
0:33.0	Teresa Rebeck has written a lot for TV and movies,
0:37.0	and she's published three novels.
0:39.2	But she is best known as a playwright, 30 full-length plays and counting.
0:44.5	And her latest one, Bernhard Hamlet, just opened in New York, her fourth play to be staged on Broadway.
0:51.7	Teresa Rebeck, welcome to Studio 360.
0:53.9	Thank you.
0:54.8	So this play is about the great actress of the second half of the 19th century
1:00.7	in the early 20th century, Sarah Bernhardt, played by the remarkable incandescent Janet McTeer.
1:07.1	And the central story is about her insistence at the height of her career in 1897.
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