After "The Jacksonian," Beth Henley recharges with slapstick "Laugh" by Nelson Pressley

Beth Henley, where ya been?Henley won a 1981 Pulitzer for the loopy "Crimes of the Heart," and it felt like a long overdue reemergence when she scored an off-Broadway hit two years ago with an all-star cast (Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Bill Pullman, Glenne Headly). "The Jacksonian" was a pitch-dark noir comedy with sex and drugs and a 1964 Mississippi murder, a scenario that cut close to Henley's upbringing in civil righ…

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