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Adaptor Rob Roth stops by to discuss “WARHOLCAPOTE,” a new play he’s adapted for the American Repertory Theater.

American Repertory Theater’s “WARHOLCAPOTE” explores the friendship between gay icons

It’s fun to imagine the kind of Broadway play two eccentric giants of American art and literature might conjure up. A lot of people are surprised to learn Andy Warhol and Truman Capote even attempted it. Or that they were close friends. But they did. And they were.

Dan Butler joined the cast of the American Repertory Theater’s production of “WARHOLCAPOTE” on very short notice.

There’s no such thing as a casual Laura Nyro fan. An archetypal singer-songwriter with a cult following, she tends to inspire deep devotion among admirers, many of whom still remember when and where they first heard her music.

Rather than offer a biographical tale, a la the Carole King musical “Beautiful,” Ferber and her co-writer Louis Greenstein decided that “One Child Born” would tap into Nyro’s music through the adoring fans who worshipped the dark-haired, dark-eyed singer, who died in 1997 at 49.

Drawing from sources like praise dance, vogue chants, performance art, house DJaying and spoken word, the piece is at times an autobiographical account of the artist’s growing up queer, Black and gender-nonconforming in the Bronx.

A first-person account from NIC Kay off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford.

Vaidya founded the Peacock Institute for Social Transformation — known as Brouhaha — in 2014. Classes, which are purposefully intimate with only 8-10 students, have focused on stand-up comedy with a social justice angle, storytelling and other areas.