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One-act Shaw offerings first-rate Plays show Screaming Penguin ranks among city's front-line troupes

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19960211
Author:DAMIEN JAQUES

With its double bill of one-act plays, collectively titled "Shaw Shorts," that opened Saturday afternoon, Screaming Penguin Productions has asserted its right to be regarded with the front-line professional theater companies in Milwaukee.

Its productions of William Butler Yeats' "The Land of Heart's Desire," and especially George Bernard Shaw's "Press Cuttings," are positively first-rate.

"Shaw Shorts" opened the 14th annual Milwaukee Shaw Festival at the Broadway Theatre Center. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre contributes to the festival with "Arms and the Man," opening next Saturday, and ...

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