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Update: Firehouse Theatre Moves 'RED HOT PATRIOT' to This Fall

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RED HOT PATRIOT the kick-ass wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel will now play the Firehouse Theatre this fall, rescheduled from its original May run.

RED HOT PATRIOT dramatizes the life newspaper columnist and bestselling author Molly Ivins. Join Jill Bari Steinberg as she brings to life the scathingly humorous wit of the unsinkable Molly Ivins.

Molly Ivins, who died of breast cancer in 2007, was a syndicated columnist to more than two hundred newspapers. A three - time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she was the former co-editor of The Texas Observer and the former Rocky Mountain bureau chief for The New York Times. Her first book, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year.

THE CAST:

Molly Ivins - Jill Barry Steinberg
Copy Boy - Hunter Madden

THE CREATIVE TEAM:

Director - Janet Rodgers
Dramaturg - Deborah Morgan
Scenic Consultant - Tennessee Dixon
Stage Manager - Morgan Howard

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