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Richard Dreyfuss, Live from TheaterWorks

Connecticut Public Radio | By Jonathan McNicol
Published November 4, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT
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Colin McEnroe and Richard Dreyfuss on stage at TheaterWorks in Hartford
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He's an Academy Award winner, a Golden Globe winner, a BAFTA Award winner.

He's the star of American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, What About Bob?, Mr. Holland's Opus, W., Madoff, and many more movies and TV shows.

He's the founder of The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative.

And he's currently playing Albert Einstein in Relativity at TheaterWorks.

Taped on stage in front of a packed house: An hour with Richard Dreyfuss.

For completeness's sake, here's the full-length, uncensored, only lightly edited audio of the event as it happened. The radio/podcast version is rearranged and more than 41 minutes shorter than the audio below.

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Colin McEnroe, Betsy Kaplan, Catie Talarski, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
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Jonathan is a producer for ‘The Colin McEnroe Show.’ His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on Connecticut Public’s talk shows and news magazines. He’s as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. Jonathan can be reached at jmcnicol@ctpublic.org.
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