How The Facts Get Stretched In Broadway's 'The Lifespan of a Fact'

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In the excellent 'The Lifespan of a Fact,' Daniel Radcliffe and Bobby Cannavale play a fact-checker and writer at odds over the facts in an essay. The play stretches the truth too.

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Published Nov. 3 2018 9:17PM EDT

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It isn’t surprising that The Lifespan of a Fact is a hot play this season on Broadway. The provenance of “facts” has been weaponized by President Trump in his dangerous, gaslighting war

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How The Facts Get Stretched In Broadway's 'The Lifespan of a Fact'

In the excellent 'The Lifespan of a Fact,' Daniel Radcliffe and Bobby Cannavale play a fact-checker and writer at odds over the facts in an essay. The play stretches the truth too.

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