Stage-Adapted Novel Plumbs Brain of Autistic Teen

From Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, which became Cabaret, from Wicked to War Horse, novels are a popular source of stories for the stage. Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, although an international bestseller, was an unlikely candidate for a theatrical adaptation. But it, too, is now on Broadway. A literary tour-de-force, the book is told entirely from the perspective of Christopher, a brilliant...

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