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Great Expectations
Sep 27-Oct 7, 2018
Great Expectations
Tickets $16
A play adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
In this memorable tale of crime, guilt, revenge and reward, follow Pip—an orphaned blacksmith’s apprentice—as…
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