James Han Mattson's Reprieve — set at a full-contact escape room attraction where actors can attack players — is overstuffed with character arcs and concepts, but somehow he makes it all work.
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Miriam Toews based the women of Fight Night on the women in her own life — her battles are their battles; against pompous religious leaders, abusive husbands and the lies depression can tell.
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Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered gives us a Sleeping Beauty for today, cursed not by an evil fairy but by an industrial accident, and yanked into another dimension where she must save a princess.
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Smile records Sarah Ruhl's coming to terms with her new face and the conundrums it presents — after the playwrite wondered for ten years whether the story deserved to live on the page.
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I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness follows a woman, also named Claire, who abandons her family during a bout of postpartum depression in favor of a road trip through significant places in her past.
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