★★★ A radiant Lois Smith leads a supple cast in a not-always-fresh look at family dysfunction and mortality.
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★★★ The wonderful Lois Smith, directed by Lila Neugebauer, in Lily Thorne's well-cast death watch
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Lily Thorne treads familiar ground in her new play, Peace for Mary Frances. Estranged members of a family gather due to the death of a parent. Old grudges are revisited, old wounds are reope…
It is both significant and problematic that Lily Thorne was a documentary film producer for many years before penning Peace for Mary Frances, her debut play having its premiere in a producti…
"We don't want you to suffer and die," one of her granddaughters says to Mary Frances (Lois Smith), as she lies in bed. "We just want you to die." "Yeah," agrees Mary Frances with a laugh. S…
What do you get when you match the lyrics of a member of the "Hippest Generation" (Fran Landesman) with the music by a man coming from the "Greatest Generation" (Bob Dorough)? Magic, as pres…
They could be the Golden Girls of the1920s. Check out these fantastic publicity photos of Emily Langham, Lauren Chinery and Sophie Linder-Lee as sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish and their ch…
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Neil Patrick Harris, Mary Louise Parker & Billy Porter to Lead Laramie Project Benefit
A trio of Tony-winning stars hav…
Tectonic Theater Project will present LARAMIE A LEGACY, a reading of The Laramie Project honoring the life and legacy of Matthew Shepard for the 20th anniversary of his death, on Monday, Sep…
Mary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust (Soho Press, 2010) and Reliance, Illinois (Soho Press, 2016). Her essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in vario…
