Theater Review | 'The Speaker's Progress': 'The Speaker's Progress' in Brooklyn - Review
"The Speaker's Progress," an elegantly staged satire about the Arab world from the Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman al-Bassam, is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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