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Review: In ‘Pictures From Home’ on Broadway starring Nathan Lane, family stories are told in photos

Nathan Lane, left, and Danny Burstein in "Pictures From Home" on Broadway at Studio 54 in New York.

NEW YORK — Artists sacrifice their families all the time. And although it sucks to be related to someone, especially a kid, who is using you in their work, or even as their work, the ageist media and cultural establishment generally sniff and stand by the precious artist’s truth.

Parents? Unavoidable collateral damage. Just look at last year’s Tony Award-winning musical, “A Strange Loop.” And that’s just one example.

But the cool thing about playwright Sharr White’s intriguing and rather haunting Broadway play “Pictures From Home,” which

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