The Theater: One-Woman Evening

A Lovely Light presents Actress Dorothy Stickney far removed from her most famous role. Where in Life with Father she played Mrs. Clarence Day Sr., an entrenched real-life bourgeoise, in her current one-woman show she half impersonates, half interprets Edna St. Vincent Millay, an unfettered real-life bohemian. With a minimum of stage props and commentary, Actress Stickney has woven an autobiographical chronicle out of Edna Millay's poems and letters, from her youthful dreaming in a Maine seacoast town through her Greenwich Village bohemian days and her married life with Eugen Boissevain to her...

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