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playwatching: Roe, the new play from Lisa Loomer about the woman at the heart of the 1973 Supreme Court case legalizing abortion, is much like its main subject: easily distracted, unbalanced, but undeniably compelling. Roe (at Arena Stage in Washington, DC through February 18) at first suggests that it will be a story of two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,7],"tags":[162,101,158,1264,32,11,30,271],"class_list":["post-10735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay-catholic-whatnot","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-abortion","tag-america","tag-and-i-will-kneel-in-the-big-church","tag-gay-catholic-whatnot","tag-gayer-than-a-picnic-basket","tag-his-banner-over-me-was-love","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-sun-sex-sin-death-and-destruction"],"yoast_head":"\n
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