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2012 Stories by Margaret Friedman

• Opening Nights: Clybourne Park

  published May 2, 2012

  Lorraine Hansberry's iconic 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun ends with the African-American Younger family facing an uncertain future as... More >>

• Opening Nights: The Pitmen Painters

  published May 2, 2012

  Lee Hall's endearing hit about English coal miners during the 1930s and '40s who get turned on to art—a true story—is like watching... More >>

• Opening Nights: Exit, Pursued by a Bear

  published April 25, 2012

  Plays within plays are usually designed to make somebody see the error of his or her ways. As Hamlet stages the pantomime to guilt Gertrude and... More >>

• Opening Nights: Or,

  published April 4, 2012

  Smart, silly, and sexy, Liz Duffy Adams' pseudo-Restoration comedy is based, very loosely, on the life of Aphra Behn... More >>

• Opening Nights: Freud's Last Session

  published March 28, 2012

  Imagined encounters between famous historical figures are a popular gimmick for playwrights both serious (Michael Frayn's Copenhagen,... More >>

• Opening Nights: Happy Days

  published March 14, 2012

  First of all, this is a terrific production of one of Samuel Beckett's most accessible plays, first performed in 1961. If you've never heard of... More >>

• Opening Nights: Red

  published March 7, 2012

  In 1958, the moody, already-huge abstract painter Mark Rothko was commissioned to paint four large canvases for NYC's new fat-cat culinary... More >>

• Opening Nights: Cradle and All

  published February 1, 2012

  Warning: Children may cause exhaustion, sexual deprivation, and marital stress. It's not a terribly new insight, and Daniel Goldfarb's... More >>

• Opening Nights: How to Write a New Book for the Bible

  published February 1, 2012

  Bill Cain's autobiographical play about caring for his mother during her last six months of life is both a miracle and a mess. Despite defying... More >>

• Opening Nights: Coriolanus

  published January 11, 2012

  Drawing parallels between the American and Roman republics has been a popular sport since the Mayflower, and the intensity picks up... More >>