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Three-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone shocked the theater world with a series of incendiary...

Three-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone shocked the theater world with a series of incendiary remarks in an interview with the New Yorker. Some of LuPone's fans have responded with ambivalence, saying they love her work, even if they don't love... her. So how should art consumers consider the creator of the art? Where should the line be drawn? Is there a difference between consuming art created by a deceased artists, versus a living artist? Our guests discuss it:
Mona Seghatoleslami, music director, host, and producer for WXXI Classical 91.5 FM, and music coordinator for the Little Cafe
Matt antino, film critic for CITY Magazine
Thomas Warfield, director of dance at RIT and inaugural professor of practice at NTID