First Nighter: Patrick Wilson in Nassim Soleimanpour's "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," Andrew Schneider in "Youarenowhere"

The thin program for Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, at the Westside Theatre, includes a prominently placed advertisement for PEN International that features a photograph of Arthur Miller and a quote from him about the organization's signal importance for writers everywhere.

Anyone noticing the page before the performance and then paying attention to the welcome voiced by the fellows introducing the piece under their auspices (Devlin Elliott and Tom Kirdahy?) who reiterate PEN's involvement may well suspect that what follows is going to have the kind of resonance that the first few minutes don't appear to promise.

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