Earlier this year, the Undermain Theatre in Dallas presented The Black Monk, David Rabe’s stage adaptation of an unusual short story by Anton Chekhov  — with a set design by Tony Award-winner John Arnone (our review here). Last week, the Undermain announced that it will bring back The Black Monk in September. The Black Monk has also just been released in print, along with an original, new play by Rabe called The Dog Problem. And next month,  Dinosaurs on the Roof — Rabe’s recent novel (about, in part, the “rapture”)  — will be out in paperback.

Think guest host Jerome Weeks talks to the playwright about his father’s time on a Texas farm-league baseball team and whether or not the Black Monk is a ghost or a madman’s fantasy.

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