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Moth Days has sympathy for a man seeking love outside a marriage also gives dignity and dimensionality to a beautiful woman who might have been betrayed but is adored by her son

It reveals a son who loves both of his parents and judges neither even as he feels real pain

The World's a Mess and It's All Your Fault is the headline of a New York Times review of The Fever

Ethan Hawke wrote a letter defending Shawn's play

The line “Inconceivable!” turns up several times in the movie.

"The Fever" features a member of the privileged class who feels revulsion at the violence in maintaining the global status quo.

In 2013, Shawn performed in his play “Grasses of a Thousand Colors.”

Shawn and a friend saw the first American production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at the Helen Hayes Theatre when he was 13.

Next month, Shawn’s new play, “What We Did Before Our Moth Days,” will open off Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater.

Shawn is reprising his role in "The Fever" two days a week at the same theater.

Shawn's father William Shawn was the second editor of The New Yorker.

Shawn attended Harvard as an undergraduate.

The play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is O'Neill's most autobiographical.

Shawn will forever be best known for his screen work.

His work as a playwright shows more of his true self.

Wallace Shawn is commonly recognized for screen roles as a plotting hit man and an unlikely Lothario.

Shawn has earned a “bourgeois lifestyle” by playing the ultimate funny valentine.

Times Square tourists may most likely know Shawn for Vizzini, the Sicilian hit man of “The Princess Bride” (1987).

The 30th anniversary of “Clueless” revived interest in Shawn’s performance as an avuncular teacher.

Shawn was stopped twice that day by giggly fans.