Actor John Douglas Thompson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson join us to discuss Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway debut of August Wilson's "Jitney," the only one of the ten plays in Wilson's The American Century Cycle that has never been seen on Broadway. Set in the 1970s, the play follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys. When the city threatens to close …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM on February 24, 2017