Arts

‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me Live’ to be cinecast at Latchis Theatre

BRATTLEBORO — Watch the week's news get the treatment it deserves at the Latchis in Brattleboro, when the NPR news quiz show “Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!” brings its star power to the big screen for a special live performance sent nationwide to movie theaters.

The show is in the main theater on Thursday, May 2, at 8 p.m.

Host Peter Sagal and official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell will lead the broadcast live from the New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

For this stage adaptation of the weekly radio show, Sagal and Kasell will quiz “Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!” panelists - the comedians, writers and style icons Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca, and Tom Bodett - plus special guests and listener contestants through a comic review of the week's news.

Carl reads limericks! Celebrity guests answer oddball questions! Always a treat for ears and brains, and now - eyes!

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