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Plays interconnect via trials and tribulations

Anne Gottlieb (foreground) as Sophie Treadwell in “Not Enough Air.’’ Anne Gottlieb (foreground) as Sophie Treadwell in “Not Enough Air.’’ (Elizabeth Stewart)
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent / February 5, 2010

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In the 1920s, Sophie Treadwell was a pioneering female journalist. Ruth Snyder was a New York housewife sentenced to death for her husband’s murder. Treadwell attended Snyder’s trial and wrote a landmark play, “Machinal,’’ inspired by the case. (Full article: 691 words)

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