With pistols drawn and chaps on, Nancy and the Nicks review the stage version of classic Western film High Noon. It's been adapted by the legendary Hollywood screenwriter Eric Roth (Dune, Benjamin Button, Forrest Gump) and stars Billy Crudup and Denise Gough. Then it's back further into the American past with Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's ridiculously silly Broadway smash play which very much does not tell the story of Mary Todd Lincoln. She may still be the wife of Abraham in Cole's telling, but she's also an alcoholic and frustrated cabaret star. But no fear, because Nick Clark talks to academic Catherine Clinton who has written a definitive biography of Mary Lincoln to get some of the facts straight. And Nick Curtis catches the brilliant actress Rosie Sheehy in a break from rehearsals for new play Guess How Much I Love You by Luke Norris.

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