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Life in the Rust Belt on Broadway
The playwright Lynn Nottage and the actor Michelle Wilson talk about their play “Sweat,” which just debuted on Broadway, which chronicles the lives of factory workers in an economically-depressed steel-belt city in Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.