How emerging playwright Alex Riad is using his hometown as fodder for a theatrical trilogy---Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis may be Alex Riad's cousin, but Lucy Thurber's Hilltown Plays are what prompted him to start writing about his California hometown. "They blew me away," recalls Riad about seeing Thurber's five-play cycle focused on the downtrodden denizens of a rural Massachusetts village, reminiscen…
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