A Weary Clockmaker Remembers His Life on Coney Island

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 21, 2017

Composer Paola Prestini, the creative and executive director of National Sawdust, an artist-led performance space in Williamsburg, joins us to discuss her new theater piece, “Aging Magician.” The opera-theater work tells the story of Harold, a world-weary clockmaker near the end of his unusual life as he is transported to his memories of Coney Island.

"Aging Magician" makes its off-Broadway premiere at The New Victory Theater (209 W 42nd St.) March 3rd-12th. For more information, click here.

 

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