Today, the multiple-Tony and Olivier-Award winning American playwright Ken Ludwig joins Tom and Midday theater critic J.Wynn Rousuck for a conversation about his life and work. Ludwig has written 28 plays and musicals, and has had six of them on Broadway. They've been performed in over 30 countries in more than 20 languages, and are produced somewhere in the United States every night of the year.

He talks about two works now running simultaneously in our area: his newest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, which opened this week at DC's Arena Stage, and his acclaimed adaptation of novelist Agathie Christie's classic who-done-it, Murder on the Orient Express, now in a new production at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre.

Ken Ludwig speaks with us today from NPR studios in Washington, DC.

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