On the third episode of The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers, Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner David Auburn (Proof) joins the podcast to dive into Summer, 1976, his third Broadway production with Manhattan Theatre Club and a meditation on friendship. We explore where this play fits into Auburn's larger body of work, how collaborations with actors Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht and director Daniel Sullivan bring a script with no stage directions to life, and which playwright's influence Auburn has come to embrace over the course of his career.