Podcasts Arts Performing Arts Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays POOF! by Lynn Nottage (Re-Release)

POOF! by Lynn Nottage (Re-Release)

Published: Jan. 27, 2019, 9 a.m.

Loureen\xa0is at the end of her rope. And now, she's just turned her husband into a pile of ashes.

As Lynn Nottage's funny and wrenching POOF! opens, Loureen (Audra McDonald) has inadvertently made her abusive husband (Keith Randolph Smith) disappear. Enter her friend and neighbor Florence (Tonya Pinkins) to help her pick up the pieces and begin to imagine a life post-Samuel. Directed by Seret Scott, POOF! features Tony Award winners Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess,\xa0Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill) and Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam;\xa0Caroline, or Change). Following the play, the 2-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Sweat,\xa0Ruined)\xa0joins host Claudia Catania for a conversation about POOF!'s origins - and how she almost never became a playwright.