This Playwright Has Been Listening To Her Mother

SOPAN DEB, NY Times: Theater
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 10:13am

Jaclyn Backhaus’s new play sounds like the story of a Punjabi-American of her generation, and it is. But it also draws on her mother’s fraught family.

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