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‘Superior Donuts,’ simpatico roles

‘Osage’ scribe’s follow-up play at Lyric Stage

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 30, 2011

The shop in Chicago’s gritty, multi-ethnic Uptown neighborhood is the kind of place where everyone from beat cops to homeless locals comes for coffee and community. But as Tracy Letts’s “Superior Donuts’’ begins, a vandal has struck, smashing the glass door and spray-painting a vulgar insult on the wall. The play, which begins performances Jan. 6 at Lyric Stage Company of Boston, is Pulitzer Prize winner Letts’s follow-up to “August: Osage County.’’ Will LeBow plays shop owner Arthur Przybyszewski, and Omar Robinson plays Franco Wicks, a neighborhood kid.

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