A Professional Fact-Checker Checks Broadway’s ‘Lifespan Of A Fact’

Christopher Swetala, the fact-checker for This American Life:”I just never have dealt with a writer so outlandish as the one played by Bobby Cannavale. … I don’t know any serious long-form literary editor who would tolerate a writer like this, even with the fancy professor of creative writing pedigree. … It drove me nuts that the audience was going to leave the theater believing [that character’s] existential grandstanding about numbers was worth sincere thought.”