Philadelphia: who's your daddy?(Brief article)
American Theatre, May, 2006 by Zinman, Toby
MILTON? Paradise Lost Milton? "Justify the ways of God to man" Milton? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yes, it's that John Milton, and he's the unlikely subject of a sharp-witted new biographical drama. Before you can say "does-anybody-read-Milton-anymore?", Evan Smith's Daughters of Genius will have opened on May 18 as a project of Philadelphia's 1812 Productions (it runs through June 18).
After the company's knockout success last season with The Uneasy Chair, Smith's bizarre Beckettian tragicomedy snarkily dressed up in Masterpiece Theatre costumes, ...
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