Terry Gross

The original stars of "The Book Of Mormon," Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells. This week, as part of the show's 15th anniversary on Broadway, they're making cameo appearances in every performance.

Another beloved Tony winner ANGELA LANSBURY. LANSBURY delivered unforgettable performances in the Broadway musicals “Mame,” “Gypsy,” and “Sweeney Todd.” Her work on stage earned her five Tony Awards, plus a lifetime achievement Tony Award in 2022. She also starred as Jessica Fletcher on the CBS mystery series “Murder, She Wrote” for twelve years. On film, she appeared in 1944 film “Gaslight” when she was only 19, and provided the voice of Mrs. Potts, singing the title song to the 1991 animated movie “Beauty and the Beast”. She died in 2022 at 96. (THIS INTERVIEW IS A REBROADCAST.

we revisit interviews with two dynamic Tony-winning stars from Broadway’s past, starting with ALAN CUMMING who has been acting in television, movies, and theater since the 1980s. He won a Tony for his role as the Emcee in the revival of “Cabaret” 1998, a role he also played in the 1993 London production and again in a 2014 revival. He won a second Tony in 2022 as a producer of the musical “A Strange Loop”. Most recently, he has been the host of the Emmy-winning Peacock reality competition series “The Traitors.”

Actor CLARKE PETERS is one of the stars of the new Netflix series “The Boroughs”. In HBO show “The Wire” he played police detective Lester Freamon. He also co-starred in the HBO series “Treme”. In Spike Lee’s 2020 film “Da 5 Bloods”, Peters was one of the 4 Vietnam Veterans who returned to Vietnam decades after the war. He’s also been in London stage productions of the musicals “Guys and Dolls”, “Porgy and Bess”, and “Chicago”. He co-wrote and co-starred in the original production of the musical “5 Guys Named Moe”, which was first staged in London.

Last spring, when the news broke that the newly elected pope had Creole roots in New Orleans and that his own grandparents had quietly become a white family in Chicago, journalist SUSAN SAULNY recognized the story immediately. Her family had lived a version of it. Her grandfather, George was a Black bricklayer who raised his children in New Orleans. George’s brother, Edward, was Black too, but light enough to leave for Chicago in the early 1920s and start a new life as a white man.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor. Her new book is called "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, A Notorious Word, And Me."

Alfre Woodard stars in the new Netflix sci-fi series "The Boroughs."

Ben Rhodes was a speechwriter and security adviser for President Obama. His book, All We Say, is a collection of 15 speeches — from Ben Franklin to Trump — about what it means to be American.

Last night, Stephen Colbert said goodbye to The Late Show after 11 years. We listen back to his '16 interview, in which he talked about embracing his "sharp and satirical and highly opinionated" side.

D.O.J. gave Trump and his family immunity from tax audits and set up a $1.8 billion fund for victims of "government weaponization." Former government lawyer Andrew Weissmann explains the settlement.