Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain. Arden Theatre, 2012
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Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, age 83 and dying from oral cancer, has invited the 40-year-old author and Oxford don C.S. Lewis to his London home. Lewis was a former atheist who subsequently embraced Christianity and became its advocate and polemicist. Freud, by contrast, had written that religion was …
The Assassination of Jesse James. EgoPo Classic Theater, 2012
American theater in the 19th Century included many genres, among them Shakespeare, minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodrama and Wild West shows. Philadelphia and New York saw the classics interpreted by Edwin Forrest and Edwin Booth, but the hinterlands favored more modest diversions.
EgoPo’s The Assassination of Jesse James is …