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This critically acclaimed, searing play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance follows the Apple family of Rhinebeck, NY as they grapple with events both personal and current in the immediate present: the 2010 election ( That Hopey Changey Thing ), the tenth anniversary of 9/11 ( Sweet and Sad ), Obama's re-election ( Sorry ) and the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, which premieres in November.

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Richard Nelson's plays include Nikolai and the Others, Farewell to the Theatre, Conversations in Tusculum, How Shakespeare Won the West, Frank's Home, Rodney's Wife, Franny's Way, Madame Melville, Goodnight Children Everywhere, New England, The General from America, Misha's Party (with Alexander Gelman), Two Shakespearean Actors and Some Americans Abroad. He has written the musicals James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey) and My Life with Albertine (with Ricky Ian Gordon), and the screenplays for the films Hyde Park-on-Hudson and Ethan Frome. He has received numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Book of a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead ), an Olivier (Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere ) and two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards ( James Joyce's The Dead and The Apple Family ). He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He lives in Upstate New York.

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