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Kathleen Turner to play Molly Ivins in new play
Molly Ivins, the salty-tongue Texas columnist, will be portrayed by Kathleen Turner in a new play about Ivins’ lively career and character.
Philadelphia Theatre Company will premiere ‘Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins’ a new play by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel.
Playbill reports that the production will run March 19-April 18, 2010.
Why Philadelphia and not the Lone Star State? Because if you want to align your production for an eventual Broadway run — or even to be a considered for such — you open it first in places like Philly or Boston.
Among her other brilliant witticisms, Ivins coined the nickname “Shrub” for George W. Bush.
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