P.S. Jones and the Frozen City

Idle hands are the devil’s playthings, but since the success of the scurrilous puppet play Hand to God, Robert Askins has apparently been keeping his fingers busy typing a new comedy, a futuristic play about a man desperate to cross the Burning Wastes to the shining Frozen City.

Dec. 3-23, 2012

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