Sarah Jessica Parker on Returning to Theater, with Blythe Danner

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 20, 2014

Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner discuss their roles in Amanda Peet’s play “The Commons of Pensacola,” about trying to love your family even when you hate what they’ve done. Parker plays Becca who bring her boyfriend to visits her mother (played by Danner) in Pensacola, Florida, after her husband’s Wall Street scam became headline news. How will past and present circumstances inform how this family moves into the future? It’s playing at the Manhattan Theater Club.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

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