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‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Can’t Quite Match the Magic of the Book – NWTheatre
The stage adaptation of Joan Didion's best-selling memoir of grief, on now through August 11 at ACT Theatre, is a beautifully performed, communal catharsis over the inevitability of death. But its attempt at universality leaves it a flattened version of the original.