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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s seminal story of racism and loss of innocence in the Depression-era south, was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in [...]

In Clifford Odets‘ famous play Golden Boy, young Joe Bonaparte (Ty Boice) must choose between a violin and a pair of boxing gloves. It’s New York City during the Great Depression. Joe [...]

Greed, as we all know, is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Greed toppled the stock market in 1929, and it brought our country to its knees again in 2008. Thus a play about greed, one thinks, should [...]