Sting attends 'The Last Ship' Pre-Broadway news conference at Cadillac Palace Theatre on May 27, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois.

A Broadway Debut for Sting in "The Last Ship"

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 28, 2015

16 Grammy winner Sting tells us about his debut as a Broadway composer in "The Last Ship" a new musical inspired by his own childhood. In a close-knit English seafaring town, life revolves around the local shipyard. 

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