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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Come From Away
Description: In Washington, DC, the evening of September 10 promises to be momentous: at 6 pm ET, Ford’s Theatre is presenting Come From Away: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial. It’s hard to think of a more appropriate play than Come From Away to mark this occasion. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical was inspired by the aftermath of 9/11, when a small town in Canada welcomed some 7,000 people whose flights had been diverted when the U.S. airspace was closed. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the free non-ticketed concert is the brainchild of Sue Frost of Ju...