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'Hillary and Clinton' is a clever, complex black comedy on the unique dynamic between former first couple

NEW YORK - "Can I touch you?" John Lithgow's Bill asks Laurie Metcalf's Hillary.

If looks could kill, the audience for Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Clinton" at Broadway's Golden Theatre would be watching Lithgow vaporize, right there in front of their eyes.

What greater enigma - what more compelling paradox - in the dying years of the 20th Century could have eclipsed that of William Jefferson and Hillary

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