Play Relives Dark Days of Third Reich

If suffering is a wellspring of art, it is no wonder that storytellers return again and again to Hitler’s Third Reich. It is the nightmare that keeps on terrifying.

Shirley Lauro’s 2005 play “All Through the Night,” which is getting its Arizona premiere at Theater Works, eventually finds its way to that archetypal hell on earth, a concentration camp, but first it invites the audience into less familiar territory, the day-to-day lives of ordinary German women who must learn the rules of a world gone mad.

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