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There is little more difficult in life to interpret than a mother-daughter relationship. It is an unwritten history from a war in which there is no victor to claim the rights of telling the tale.

In this dramatic work by Lee Blessing, three generations of highly intelligent and freethinking women attempt to reconcile years of family dysfunction. Dorothea was a repressed housewife and mother of ...

Word of the Day: Expanding the repertoire of rare and sophisticated English vocabulary, today’s Word of the Day is “eleemosynary”, a term as ornate in sound as it is profound in meaning. Often ...

Eleemosynary. The word means to be charitable, the giving of alms. You’ll get to know it and dozens of other words well in this moving one-act play by Lee Blessing that is the inaugural production in ...

DILLON – Most people can’t spell “eleemosynary,” much less define it, but in their heart they know what it means. Eleemosynary is 16-year-old Echo’s (played by Teri Swartz) favorite word. She can ...

Lee Blessing’s somewhat overlong, 1985 one-act play “Eleemosynary” is intensely focused on the architecture of emotional neglect and abuse crossing three generations of highly-intelligent women. Seen ...

“Eleemosynary” may look like a line from your last eye test, but it happens to be the title of Moxie Theatre’s season-opening play. Here’s a look at the production and the rest of the Season 6 lineup, ...