Truman Capote's coffee table as seen in The Invisible Theater production of "Tru", starring Chuck Yates.
Featured on the September 4, 2015 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
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A report on changes in leadership at two Tucson art museums, as Robert Knight prepares to retire after 10 years as executive director of the Tucson Museum of Art, and Samuel Ireland becomes the executive director of MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art...
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Mark McLemore interviews Debi Chess Mabie and Roberto Bedoya of the Tucson Pima Arts Council about recent changes in the organization's leadership, and the funding challenges to create a "21st century" arts advocacy group in response to community needs...
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Meet Chuck Yates, the actor who portrays Truman Capote in the one-man show Tru, now running at The Invisible Theater in Tucson. Mark McLemore talks with Yates about depicting the famed author in the mid-1970s, a time when Capote was rejected by New York's artistic society because of the scandalous true stories he had written about...
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And, True Concord Voices and Orchestra's new recording features "Prayers and Remembrances", a composition by the late Stephen Paulus written as a memorial to the victims of 9/11. The True Concord artists have been invited to perform the work at New York's Lincoln Center on September 11th, and Mark McLemore talks with conductor Eric Holtan about the emotional story behind the journey and the music...
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