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Tough luck leads to angsty laughs in 'Sons of the Prophet' by Nelson Pressley

"A nervous romance" was the great tag line for Woody Allen's "Annie Hall," and "an anxious comedy" would nicely fit Stephen Karam's "Sons of the Prophet" at Theater J. The 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist has a whopping case of the jitters: the unsettled, unstable characters talk in halting fragments and say "sorry" a lot. These are people who murmur politely or blurt inelegantly until someone finally explodes in a profa…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PM on November 23, 2015

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