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Mixed Blessings in "Our Lady of 121st Street" by Jan Simpson

Although separated by five centuries and different codes of acceptable onstage profanity, the playwrights William Shakespeare and Stephen Adly Guirgis have a lot in common. Wait; hear me out.Both writers share a love of language and a knack for a piquant turn of phrase.  Each wrote with the politics of his time decidedly in mind. And both wrote for a company of actors who were friends as well as colleagues and w…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AM on June 2, 2018

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