‘Benevolent’ Review: Trapped Women Dreaming of Escape

With her usual irreverent humor, the playwright Sophie McIntosh mines the experiences of four young, cooped-up women at a Manhattan reformatory in 1917.

AAdmin

August 17, 2026

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‘Benevolent’ Review: Trapped Women Dreaming of Escape

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