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Tuesday, November 03, 2026

Why This Playwright Can’t Quit His Family of Anxious Liberals

The New York Times: It was September 2020, and after 10 years, four in-person plays and three pandemic-era virtual installments, the playwright Richard Nelson truly thought he had finished with the Apple family, the mainstays of his politically attuned Rhinebeck play series. But then Donald Trump was elected to a second term, and Nelson realized he wanted to hear from the Apples again.

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