• • • Mike Daisey Tackles Ayn Rand 
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Atheism  |Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Egoism  |Paul Ryan  |Image  | Mike Daisey, the theater monologist who made news headlines last year when it was revealed that some of the incidents in his show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” detailing Daisey’s visit to the Foxconn factory in China, had been fictionalized, is back with another topical show. “F*cking F*cking F*cking Ayn Rand” opened as part of the Under the Radar Festival at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St.      View blog reactions

• • • Ayn Rand’s ‘Ideal’ debuts in New York City 
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The Fountainhead  | Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and inventor of the philosophy of Objectivism, was also a dramatist. “Ideal,” about an idealistic actress accused of murder, will have its New York premiere June 23, 66 years after Rand penned it. It runs through July 3 at 59E59 as part of the “Americas Off Broadway” Festival. Jenny Beth Snyder, 24, directs. Speakeasy talked to Snyder about the production.      View blog reactions

• When in Disgrace (Haply I Think on Thee) 
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Theater review.
[Actor Patrick] Vaill's bright surfer-dude aspect suggests a boy who would read Ayn Rand, not buy poison on the Internet, not that that's remotely plausible.      View blog reactions