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'I'm A Purist': Mary-Louise Parker Returns To Broadway For A New Challenge

The actor discusses her "arduous" role as a 53-year-old Yale professor in the dark play, The Sound Inside. "It requires a lot of technique," she said. "Because I don't want you to see the technique."
Mary-Louise Parker during the opening night curtain call for the new play <em>The Sound Inside</em> on Broadway at Studio 54 Theatre last month.

Mary-Louise Parker is drawing rave reviews for her central role in Adam Rapp's new, two-character Broadway drama, The Sound Inside.

In the play, Parker stars as Bella Baird, a 53-year-old Yale English professor and fiction writer living with cancer, a role Parker herself describes as "arduous."

Night to night, under the direction of David Cromer, she's tasked with commanding a

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