the playwright stephen karam, director joe mantello and tony nominated stars reed birney and jane houdyshell. >> i started talking about how it's from the fear-based place. but ultimately the plan ends up being the way this particular family vanquishes their fears or comes together through this imperfect but really deep love. you sort of see the way that they have this astonishing resilience. >> rose: we conclude with jim steyer. his life-long effort has been about children's education. we talk about common sense media and all the efforts he makes to make childhood education more available. >> politicians love to kiss babies and say all the platitudes about how they care about children and then at the end of the day they cut the budget for early childhood and schools and kids are the poorest americans. truthfully, i kids don't have power. the reasons we built the media platform was to give stuff away for free to parents to they would join an organization and advocate for kids. >> rose: football, broadway and children's education, when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been

. ♪ ♪ charlie: "the humans" is the latest from stephen karam.e new york times" calls it a sad family drama about a family he ran the edge of the abyss. "the humans" was a file a list for the pulitzer prize drama. and nominated for six tony awards. the director joe montelo and reed birney and jayne houdyshell. tommy about taking about this and what you wanted to do. stephen: i wanted to write about the things that were keeping me up at night and i started by thing about how we all of us cope with our basement fears. the first impulse in terms of story was constructing a family that in which each family member was born out of an existential human fear like fear of poverty, ill health, failure, criticism, death, that was -- the whole point is that these are things that we all at some point or another are grappling with. charlie: you take this one family and they go in for thanks giving dinner in manhattan. stefan: it is a real-time play. charlie: when you get this guy who is as good as director as there is anywhere around, it is true, tell me how y