This week, Gene welcomes NPR’s Audie Cornish to talk about multi-talented writer, producer and comedian John Leguizamo. As a performer, he’s mined his Latino identity through his own family and old New York neighborhoods for decades. Audie interviewed Leguizamo in New York during the current run of his latest one-man show, Latin History For Morons. Now a father, Leguizamo struggles with what he knows and what he can teach his son and daughter about being Latino in the U.S., while challenging himself to be the dad he’d always wanted his own father to be.

John Leguizamo in Latin History For Morons at The Public Theater, his sixth one-man show.

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John Leguizamo in Latin History For Morons at The Public Theater, his sixth one-man show.

Joan Marcus/©2016 Joan Marcus