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Play by play: December 25, 2009

By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 23, 2009

SHEAR MADNESS | The dramatis personae of the audience-participation whodunit (which is now the longest-running non-musical in American theater history, having run 29 years in Boston) continue to comb Newbury Street for the murderer of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is set. | Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St, Boston | 617.426.5225 | Indefinitely | Curtain this week: 8 pm Mon-Tues | 2 + 8 pm Wed | 8 pm Thurs [New Year's Eve] | 7 pm [Christmas Day] or 8 pm [New Year's Day] Fri | 6 + 9 pm Sat | 3 + 7 pm [December 27] Sun | $42; $31.50 with AAA discount; half-price college-student rush, one ticket per college ID, at the box office, one hour prior to curtain

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