Weary, Brooding and Made for Each Other
Charles IsherwoodJanuary 23, 2014: The rain pours down in steady streams, shrouding in gloom the Irish countryside of Outside Mullingar, the new play by John Patrick Shanley that opened on Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Gloomy, too, is the talk of lost loves, deaths and other grim subjects dear to the hearts of the Irish, or at least those who populate Broadway stages. As is also regularly the case in plays set there, the reaper will pay a house call before the curtain has fallen.
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