Kurt Andersen and playwright Wendy Wasserstein explore how artists embrace and avoid all kinds of creative deadlines. We’ll meet a group of young playwrights who have only the length of a subway ride to complete their masterpiece and we’ll take a trip into the mind of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of the ticking clock.
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