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New York Times<\/em> theater critic Ben Brantley has a suggestion<\/a>\u00a0in the March 27 issue of the New York Times for entertainment during the pandemic era: reading plays aloud!\u00a0 Now is your chance to be a star!\u00a0 If you’re performing with your household, however, we don’t recommend reading Hamlet<\/em> with your parents or\u00a0Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em> with your significant other, as Brantley says he did…<\/p>\n

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