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Nick Heling

“Power” Play

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

All this talk in the news about government intervention in business got me thinking: why, in our free market economy, do we pretty much only have one choice for electricity? Arthur Arent’s ‘Power’ asks this question — and answers it too. ‘Power’ premiered in New York in 1937 and was one of the Federal Theatre […]

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