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Friday was the first day of an unexpected move-out at SUNY Oneonta, where more than 500 students have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of…

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian David Farber about his new book, Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed.

Officials are struggling to handle the high number of people who have died from the disease. So many have died that the city is considering temporary burial at a public cemetery on Hart Island.

As state health officials make plans for a vaccine, many questions remain unanswered. In Pennsylvania, the top health official says she does not know how many doses will be made available initially.

MUSIC MAN interviews continued.The Republican National Convention convenes in Philadelphia in a week. A talk with FRANK PUNZO, Sales Manager for Verizon Communications which is the official local telecommunications provider for the convention. PUNZO is responsible for providing the infrastructure that supports telephone service, video conferencing, internet access and video streaming.Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Transcendental Blues" the new recording by Steve Earle.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . .the Broadway revival of "The Music Man". . . A talk with stars CRAIG BIERKO (Be-AIR-co) who plays the role of con-man Harold Hill, and REBECCA LUKER who plays Marian the Librarian. Also . . .what it's like to make sure 45,000 people at the Republican National Convention have access to telephone, internet and other telecommunications. A talk with the man responsible for wiring the Convention. That's coming up on the next Fresh Air.

As we here at WAMC celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Roundtable, a little American musical is celebrating 10 years since it premiered in New York City – and quickly became a once-in-a-generation success in terms of reviews, ticket sales, fan enthusiasm, and awards recognition.“Hamilton” opened off-Broadway at The Public Theatre on January 20, 2015 and played there through May 3. It opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in early August of 2015, where it is still running. “Hamilton” won 11 Tony Awards, a 2016 Grammy Award for its cast recording, and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It has played – and is playing – all over the world. A pro-tape of the production’s original cast streams on Disney+ and was a pandemic sensation.But before all of that - “The Hamilton Mixtape” was a work-in-progress, put up in a black-box staged-reading, presented by New York Stage and Film and Vassar College in the summer of 2013. And I did get to be there - in the room where it was starting to happen.

Fresh Air's critic says Steve Buscemi's film — a remake of a two-character psychodrama by murdered Dutch director Theo van Gogh — isn't politically incendiary, but it's powerfully dramatic.

3: MICHAEL DENNENEY is currently an editor at Crown Publishers. He worked with many gay authors in his 17 years at St. Martins Press, where he had his own imprint, Stonewall Editions. INTERVIEW FOURPoet DAVID TRINIDAD. His latest book is "Answer Song" (High Risk). He and Dennis Cooper are co-editing a volume of selected poems by Tim Dlugos called "Powerless" (High Risk, Fall 1995).INTERVIEW FIVEPlaywright TONY KUSHNER. He's the author of "Angels in America," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Best Play. The play is a two-part "seven hour epic about gays, AIDS and Reaganism" (New York "Newsday"). KUSHNER is also the author of "A Bright Room Called Day," an adaptation of Pierre Corneille's "The Illusion," and "Slavs!"

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, known for work in post-apartheid South Africa, talks with Debbie Elliott about getting people to look at the world in a different way... throwing away old categories and old concepts and starting fresh.