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An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends--Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was never completed. Now, award-winning director Rob Roth brings their vision to life after a years' long search to unearth the eighty hours of tapes of between two of the most daring artists of postwar America. WARHOLCAPOTE, based on words actually spoken by the two men, is set in the '70s and '80s, toward the end of their close connection and not too long before their untimely deaths. Their special, complex friendship is captured by Roth with bracing intimacy as they discuss life, love, and art and everything in between. Every word in the play comes directly from these two 20th century geniuses. The structure of the conversations springs from Roth's imagination.

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Rob Roth directed the world premiere of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, collaborating with Sir Elton John and Sir Tim Rice. His other director credits include the Broadway musical Lestat, based on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles with a score by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Roth received a Tony nomination for his Broadway directing debut, Disney's Beauty and The Beast, which went on to become the eighth-longest-running show in Broadway history. Beauty has been seen by more than 40 million people all over the world. Rob's ?rst play as an author, WARHOLCAPOTE, debuted at American Repertory Theatre. Rob Roth directed the world premiere of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, collaborating with Sir Elton John and Sir Tim Rice. His other director credits include the Broadway musical Lestat, based on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles with a score by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Roth received a Tony nomination for his Broadway directing debut, Disney's Beauty and The Beast, which went on to become the eighth-longest-running show in Broadway history. Beauty has been seen by more than 40 million people all over the world. Rob's ?rst play as an author, WARHOLCAPOTE, debuted at American Repertory Theatre. Two-time Tony(R) Award winner Stephen spinella has starred in such Broadway productions as Our Town, Angels in America, and Love! Valour! Compassion! Regionally and Off-Broadway, he has appeared in works by Shaw, Beckett, Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov. Blake Gopnik, one of North America's leading arts writers, has served as art and design critic at Newsweek, and as chief art critic at the Washington Post and Canada's Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a Cullman Center Fellow in residence at the New York Public Library, and in 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at City University of New York. He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University and is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Dennis Boutsikaris received an Obie Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and was Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. His films include *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On The Side. His TV work includes And Then There Was One, The Last Don and Chasing The Dragon; he was most recently the D.A. of NY in Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street. Dan Butler, audiobook narrator, actor, writer, director, and producer, has had major roles on and off Broadway and has appeared in numerous television shows, including Frasier, House, and Monk. He cowrote and directed Karl Rove, I Love You and has appeared in such feature films as Crazy, Stupid, Love; Silence of the Lambs; Enemy of the State; and Fixing Frank, among others.

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