Put together Olympia Dukakis, Veanne Cox and a pistol and what do you get? The off-Broadway production of Barra Grant's A Mother, A Daughter and A Gun, which opened at Dodger Stages on November 1 ...
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Barra Grant has gotten a lot of press attention for her one-woman show, “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter.” She calls it a dark comedy, and it’s onstage at the Edye, the black box theatre at Santa Monica ...
"Fame was like a tongue sandwich to my mother," is one way Barra Grant puts it in her autobiographical (almost) solo play, MISS AMERICA'S UGLY DAUGHTER: BESS MYERSON AND ME. From the moment in 1945 ...