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Ten can't-miss plays for this fall

By CAROLYN CLAY | September 20, 2012

MACBETH October 3–November 4 » Veteran Boston actress Paula Plum is at the helm of the Bard's Scottish play, in which a chain slayer is brought down by ambition, guilt, and ignorance of cesarean section. Chevalier Theatre, Medford :: actorsshakespeareproject.org

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WAR HORSE October 10-21 » Life-size equine puppets are the most spectacular aspect of this Tony-winning stage adaptation by Nick Stafford of Michael Morpurgo's young-adult novel about a Devon lad who follows his beloved half-thoroughbred onto the hellish battlefields of World War I. The Opera House :: boston.broadway.com

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ARTICLES BY CAROLYN CLAY

OUT OF AFGHANISTAN | September 19, 2012
Matthew Spangler's stage adaptation of The Kite Runner is so faithful to Khaled Hosseini's 2003 bestseller that you might think the novel a religion.

GILDING THE LILY | September 17, 2012
Princess Diana died in 1997, so that's when Taylor Mac began contemplating The Lily's Revenge , in which, complete with petals and pot, he portrays the titular blossom.

TEN CAN'T-MISS PLAYS FOR THIS FALL | September 20, 2012
Princess Diana died in 1997, so that's when Taylor Mac began contemplating The Lily's Revenge, in which, complete with petals and pot, he portrays the titular blossom.

MARIE ANTOINETTE RULES AT ART | September 13, 2012
Last year, dramatist David Adjmi raised a stir with a site-specific tea party called Elective Affinities , in which four-time Tony winner Zoe Caldwell held court in an Upper East Side townhouse, spinning a small audience into her web of entitlement.

GSC COMMITS CRIMES OF THE HEART | September 05, 2012
It must have seemed a guilty pleasure to dramatist Beth Henley to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Crimes of the Heart.