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Brooke Allen

Brooke Allen's latest book is Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers (Ivan R Dee). Ms. Allen was born in 1956 and grew up in New York City. She received a BA from the University of Virginia and a PhD in English from Columbia University. She spent several years working in various jobs in the theater, and wrote a play, The Big Love. Ms. Allen worked as managing editor for the literary and art magazine Grand Street. Her writing appears regularly in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, and The New Leader; she has also written theater reviews for Time Out New York. Ms. Allen is married to Peter Aaron, an architectural photographer, and has twin daughters. She lives in New York City and Upstate New York. She has also lived in France and in Kenya.

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Zola alá mode | November 2009

The end of the line | May 2009

On Exit the King, Happiness, Our Town & God of Carnage.

An entrance & an exit | April 2009

On Enter Laughing: The Musical at the York Theatre, The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons, 33 Variations at Eugene O'Neill Theater, and the closing of Forbidden Broadway.

Tough love | March 2009

On Becky Shaw at the Second Stage, The American Plan at the Manhattan Theater Club, and Sleepwalk With Me at the Bleecker Street Theater.

When a heel sings a lovely tune | February 2009

On the revival of Pal Joey at the Roundabout, Shrek: The Musical at the Broadway Theater, and The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Atlantic Theater Company.

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