"Wild with Happy"

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 8, 2012

Playwright Colman Domingo discusses his play “Wild with Happy,” in its world premiere at the Public Theater. Gil, an actor, finds his worlds colliding when his mother dies and he decides to have her cremated. But where should he scatter the ashes? And can he make a fairytale ending for her in the one place that made her wild with happy? “Wild with Happy” is playing at the Public Theater through November 11.

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