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4th Wall Theatre opens its seventh season with the Houston premiere of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama - DISGRACED, by acclaimed award winning playwright, Ayad Akhtar.

???????4th Wall Theatre opens its seventh season with the Houston premiere of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama - DISGRACED, by acclaimed award winning playwright, Ayad Akhtar.  DISGRACED's Broadway run was universally praised by critics, including The New York Times, who called it 'a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about the thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world…dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence…a terrific, turbulent drama.' The Los Angeles Times added that Akhtar's drama was '…sensationally gripping…'

This is theater by design rather than organic moments of human emotion. The director has taken her background in dance and created a show that is colorful and choreographed as any ballet or opera would be.

This hilarious frolic launched Feydeau in Paris as the Neil Simon of his day. Take one philandering husband, his virtuous wife and a doctor - toss them together at 13 Rue de L'Amour where a love starved German countess is the concierge. This fast-paced farce is filled with fibs, twists and turns in a series of unfortunate events in 1800s Paris.