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Twenty of Boston's finest actresses make up the all-female cast of 'The Women,' the classic Clare Boothe Luce comedy.
Twenty of Boston's finest actresses make up the all-female cast of "The Women," the classic Clare Boothe Luce comedy. (Tracy Powell, Globe Staff) Tracy Powell, Globe Staff
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A take on 'The Women' for modern times

By Catherine Foster
Globe Staff / September 22, 2006

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"The Women" is one of those plays that -- if not done with an eye toward modern sensibilities -- could turn off audiences. These days, performing Clare Booth Luce's 1936 play as if it were just about bitchy, backstabbing women is going to raise hackles. (Full article: 591 words)

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