Do You Really Know the Hooker With a Heart of Gold? - Axis Co. rejuvenates a classic
Axis Company rejuvenates a classic play---You've probably seen pictures of a slum. But what would it feel like to live in one? Director Randy Sharp raises this question in her revival of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End, a 1935 hit on Broadway that later became a Humphrey Bogart picture. Originally, Sharp says, the drama felt necessary because it educated audiences on poverty in New York City. "There was no other way to…