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This Season’s Most Produced Play: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’

This Season’s Most Produced Play: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
Jayne Houdyshell, left, and Laurie Metcalf in “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” written by Lucas Hnath. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.

Some Relevant Reviews

A Doll's House Part 2.
By: Carlson, Marvin. Ibsen News & Comment. 2016/2017, Vol. 36/37, p13-17. 5p. , Database: International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
Dial-A-Feminist
Schulman, Michael. The New Yorker; New York Vol. 93, Iss. 14, (May 22, 2017): 32.
Theater Review: Reopening That Door With A Doll’s House, Part 2
Green, Jesse. New York; New York (May 1, 2017)

Other Plays by and about Lucas Hnath

A doll's house, part 2
Call Number: PS3608.N38 D65 2017
ISBN: 9781559365826
Red speedo : a play.
ISBN: 9781468310849
The Christians : a play
Call Number: PS3608.N38 C46 2016 and EBook Central
ISBN: 9781468310832
Humana Festival 2014 : the complete plays
Call Number: PS634 .H86 2014
ISBN: 162384004X
Isaac's Eye by Lucas Hnath
Call Number: PS3608.N38 I73 2013
ISBN: 0822229226
Publication Date: 2014-03-19
THE STORY: To understand light and optics better, young Isaac Newton inserted a long needle between my eye and the bone, as near to the backside of my eye as I could. Why take such a risk? Lucas Hnath reimagines the contentious, plague-ravaged wo
Death Tax by Lucas Hnath
Call Number: PS3608.N38 D43 2013
ISBN: 082222755X
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
THE STORY: It's December 2010. Infirm Maxine thinks her daughter is paying Nurse Tina to gently nudge her into the grave before the new year. Maxine thinks Tina's doing this so her daughter doesn't have to pay hefty estate taxes, taxes that take ef