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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
feature Creator and star Mike Daisey talks about the shocking working conditions in the Chinese plant that produces Apple’s iPhones and iPads.
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Sex With Strangers
feature Laura Eason's “smart, funny, insightful” play is about a woman nearing 40 and a 24-year-old blogger known for sharing details of his sexual conquests online.
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Three Sisters
feature Austin Pendleton's production has a star-laden cast and an Americanized translation by Paul Schmidt.
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Being Harold Pinter
feature Members of the Belarus Free Theater have put themselves at personal risk to perform in the U.S.
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John Gabriel Borkman
feature Ibsen's timely play is about a disgraced banker who’s untroubled by the many lives destroyed by his financial misdeeds.
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God’s Plot
feature Mark Jackson’s new play is based on William Darby’s Ye Bare and Ye Cubb, which may have been the first play performed in the British colonies.
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Once
feature Enda Walsh brings the 2006 Irish film about two musicians who fall in love while they play and sing together to the stage.
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The week’s other opening
feature On Holy Ground
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Seminar
feature Alan Rickman plays a once-great author who spears aspiring writers in $5,000 seminars with eloquent cruelty and wit.
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Holiday drama: A selection of innovative seasonal shows
feature A Klingon Christmas Carol; Some Lovers; When the Clock Strikes; A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa (Happy Ramadan)
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Stick Fly
feature What sets Lydia R. Diamond’s family drama apart from the usual Broadway fare is that her family is wealthy, aristocratic, and African-American.
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Bonnie & Clyde
feature The musical staging about the life of the criminal duo is based on a book by Ivan Menchell and set to music by Frank Wildhorn.
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Burning Bluebeard
feature The new play by Jay Torrence concerns the Iroquois Theater fire of 1903, which killed more than 600 audience members and was deadliest single-building fire in American history.
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The week’s other openings
feature Woyzeck; The Night Watcher; Romeo and Juliet
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