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New Twain Play Debuts on Broadway Mark Twain wrote Is He Dead? in 1898. Long thought lost, it was discovered recently and noted stage adaptor David Ives was given the happy task of getting the play in shape for its Broadway debut.

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New Twain Play Debuts on Broadway

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New Twain Play Debuts on Broadway

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Mark Twain wrote Is He Dead? in 1898. Long thought lost, it was discovered recently and noted stage adaptor David Ives was given the happy task of getting the play in shape for its Broadway debut.

Ives talks to Liane Hansen about his once-in-a-lifetime collaboration with the great Mark Twain.