SOURCE: ";Fractured Tooth,"; in The New Yorker, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, March 17, 1973, pp. 92, 94.
Oliver began her career as an actor, writer, and producer and joined the New Yorker in 1948, becoming one of the magazine's theater critics in 1961. Here she praises Shepard's writing in The Tooth of Crime, despite the unusual staging the play received in a series of New York performances.
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