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Playwright Hilary Bettis Is Fighting to Dispel Misconceptions About Immigration in 72 Miles to Go by Michael Appler

While writing 72 Miles to Go, Hilary Bettis found herself at the Mexican-American border. She traveled to Arizona so she could research locations, setting the play in the same city where her grandfather had crossed the border decades ago. Amid the saguaro cactuses of Tucson, she thought of him. Like many immigrants of his generation, Bettis' grandfather "believed that to be in the United States you had to pr…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM on March 5, 2020

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