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You can get the gist of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” at the Goodman Owen Theatre without knowing Spanish or anything about Dominican history or culture, but you're likely to miss many of the ...

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“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” — 2.5 stars What’s not to love about Oscar, the unreservedly romantic, unfailingly authentic character at the center of Goodman Theatre’s “The Brief Wondrous ...

“You’re strange, unfamiliar, great,” says the young woman to Oscar Wao, the nerdy, collegiate, Dominican American hero of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Junot Díaz. No sooner are those words ...

The Goodman will present an eight-performance extension for the world premiere of Marco Antonio Rodríguez’s English stage adaptation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao— based on the Pulitzer ...

This article was originally written for and published in Zócalo Public Square. When The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao burst onto the scene in 2007, it cracked open what a “Dominican story” could ...

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Caption:Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu (Te Rākau) is now the longest-running Māori community theatre company in Aotearoa.Photo credit:Stephen A'Court For more than three decades, Aotearoa's longest ...

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