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Dark Matters
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Dark Matters
By Roberta Aguirre-Sacasa
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 WaverlyPlace
212-868-4444
My Mother the Changeling
A shape-shifting drama about loving the alien
BY ALEXIS SOLOSKI
Like playwright Roberta AguirreSacasa's last Manhattan outing, Dark Matters is also based on a totally true story. In 1895, aTipperary seamstress. Bridget Cleary, briefly disappeared. Upon her return, her husband, Michael; her brothers; and her neighbors determined her to be not Bridget at all, but a fairy changeling. Over the course of a week, they beat her, half starved her, and finally burned her to ...
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Off track Weak characters, wandering story hurts 'At Wit's End'.(Time Out!)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; ...audiences Almost forgotten today, Alexander Woollcott once was a household name. In...Came to Dinner." The fact that Woollcott also had a soft side - he was...triangle that developed with Woollcott, Grant and Ross. Many of the...
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Writer checks into the Algonquin Roundtable discussions inspire musical 'At Wit's End'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...caustic New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott, have been with the musical...founder of the magazine, and Woollcott. "At Wit's End" focuses...lived in a ramshackle house with Woollcott. Ross and Grant were trying...
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 "Lake Villa Review (IL)")
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A happy 'End'
Newspaper article from: Lake Villa Review (IL)
; ...the Round Table itself - is Alexander Woollcott, the powerful, acerbic New...to take no for an answer, Woollcott devises ways to insinuate himself...Blake Hammond is every bit Alexander Woollcott and no wonder, the role was...
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A happy 'End' on stage at Northlight Theatre
Newspaper article from: Niles Herald-Spectator (IL)
; ...the Round Table itself - is Alexander Woollcott, the powerful, acerbic New...to take no for an answer, Woollcott devises ways to insinuate himself...Blake Hammond is every bit Alexander Woollcott and no wonder, the role was...
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Guest from hell
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...American radio and magazine pundit Alexander Woollcott. And it is here that I immediately...Christian name of his character. Woollcott also became my godfather, although...and his beloved Marx Brothers, Woollcott was arguably the most famous...
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 "Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)")
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Northlight has 'Wit's' about it
Newspaper article from: Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)
; ...life characters including Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy Parker, Robert...focuses on theater critic Alexander Woollcott, his infatuation with Jane...Round Table had to feature Alexander Woollcott; he was its mastermind...
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TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME The Man Who Came to Dinner by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...1939) was designed as a vehicle for Alexander Woollcott, the acerbic wit and Algonquin Round...uncertain of exactly how to showcase Woollcott's talents, but an incident supplied a plot. Woollcott turned up at Hart's house and proceeded...
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FIRST PERSON; Getting the priorities right
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...of trouble with deadlines was Alexander Woollcott when he was writing a column...was seated at the typewriter (Woollcott, not Thurber or Ross), virgin...for the week's brilliance. Woollcott began with one of the most common...
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...based on their good friend Alexander Woollcott, the celebrated theatre critic...rather harrowing episode with Woollcott as his houseguest, and from...of the play starts with "To Alexander Woollcott, for reasons that are nobody...
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Fright plan
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...feels thin. Which brings us to Alexander Woollcott. The great raconteur had a weakness...archives of the Paris police." Woollcott relates the tale with relish...sleep upon me in record time.) Woollcott goes on to note the story's...
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