“You always hurt the one you love The one you shouldn’t hurt at all You always take the sweetest rose And crush it till the petals fall” Song by Roberts and Fisher, 1944 At least three different times during Jon Robin Baitz’s sublime play “Other Desert Cities,” characters preface an…
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Theatre Review: ‘Mary T. & Lizzy K.’ at Arena Stage
It’s a play of “what if?” and “Wow, I didn’t know that” moments. Mary T. & Lizzy K., a play that elicits more respect than passion, asks “What if we could be a fly on the wall when Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker and confidante, Elizabeth Keckly, were alone…
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