'Rizzo' at Theatre Exile: Big, brash, worthy of an ambiguous Philly legend

Once upon a time, you could take the measure of a Philadelphian by his or her reaction to the name Frank Rizzo. As Bruce Graham's Theatre Exile world-premiere play Rizzo makes abundantly clear, you were with him or against him. He was a skull-cracking peacekeeper and the only politician brave enough to stand up for the working class, or he was a skull-cracking, gay-bashing, racist bully and the leader of a ring of cr…

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