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What the Hit Broadway Musical SUFFS can Teach Us About the Fight for Abortion Rights

Watch the video version of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHV7aTjToU&t=923s

SUFFS is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical set in the early 1900s that chronicles the suffragists’ fight to secure women’s right to vote. More than a century later, the production’s Broadway run is happening at a moment when abortion rights, and women’s rights more broadly, are under attack across the country.

On this episode, we sit down with SUFFS’ writer, composer, and star Shaina Taub, and ensemble cast member Jenna Bainbridge to talk about creating politically-engaged art. We also discuss…

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