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Monday, June 13, 2011

'Jekyll & Hyde' actor and director share theatrical parallels

Post Gazette: "The 'gothic horror thriller' genre, as director Robert Cuccioli pegs the musical 'Jekyll & Hyde,' might seem to be having a renaissance, with all the werewolves and vampires and other human-sized creatures from 19th-century literature lurking on stage and screen. But the truth is, it never went away: note the many interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' the circa-1886 story of one man's struggle to tame the monster within himself.

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