Today on From the Vault we share compelling interviews with two actors of stage and screen, both at critical times in their career, focusing on live theater and particularly the New York Broadway stage. First, WBAI host David Rothenberg talks with Charles S. Dutton, starring at the time (1984) in the hit play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, about Dutton’s evolution into acting while locked up in prison, among other things. Then, we move to an interview with the incomparable Harvey Fierstein, again with Rothenberg, conducted shortly after Fierstein had won Tony awards for both writing and performance in Torch Song Trilogy (1982), a potent work that also introduced to the world a young Matthew Broderick.
These recordings are two of the 150 hours of our recorded history that have been released on our website for you to browse, listen, and study as a result of a year-long preservation and access project funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and our loyal Pacifica station listeners.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
First broadcast on Friday, September 9, 2011.
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