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Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
- Beth Henley
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Robert Frost: This Verse Business
Roberts Studio Theatre at Calderwood Pavilion (4/23 - 4/28)
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The Stands
Firehouse Center for the Arts (5/3 - 5/5) | |
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The Full Monty
The Umbrella Arts Center (4/26 - 5/19) | |
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I Hear America Singing: Songs for the People and The American Songbook
St. Luke's Episcopal Church (4/27 - 4/28) | |
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See The Light: The New Rock Musical
BRRHS Auditorium (4/25 - 4/27) | |
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Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
Colonial Theatre (6/27 - 7/21) | |
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Disney’s Descendants The Musical
The Company Theatre (11/8 - 11/10) | |
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Twelfth Night, A musical Adaptation by Shaina Taub
Arlington Friends of the Drama (5/3 - 5/19) | |
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Toni Stone
Huntington Theatre (5/17 - 6/16) | |
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