Guest host Maeve Higgins!

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Writer and comedian Maeve Higgins fills in as guest host this week, interviewing playwright Michael R. Jackson about his new musical “A Strange Loop” and artist-journalist Molly Crabapple about her illustrations of ISIS-occupied Syria. Plus, the creators and cast of “Felix Starro,” a new musical from the Ma-Yi Theater Company, which is celebrating 30 years of bringing the work of Asian American theater artists to the stage.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:06.9	Hi, I'm Mae Piggins. I'm a writer and a comedian.
0:10.3	Usurping Kurt Anderson.
0:12.3	Today in Studio 360.
0:15.1	Jeff, wait!
0:16.5	Jack, please don't go. I love you.
0:19.3	I grew up really loving soap operas.
0:22.3	How playwright Michael O'R. Jackson got the bug.
0:25.5	That was my main note of storytelling from a very young age.
0:29.5	Plus, so we know photojournalists have to move quickly to get their shot.
0:35.4	But imagine being an illustrator who actually draws breaking news.
0:40.2	I'm someone who's incredibly impatient
0:42.6	and that's why I draw so fast,
0:44.5	which turned out to be very good for journalism
0:46.4	because I could get things down really fast
0:49.1	before people moved or before a cop found out what I was doing.
0:54.4	Artist and writer Molly Crabapple.
0:56.4	That's ahead in Studio 360, right after this.
1:08.6	This is Studio 360.
1:10.4	I'm Kurt Anand. And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I'm Kurt Annes.
1:11.1	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.4	This first level of garden.
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