Manhattan Theatre Club continues its 2017-2018 Off-Broadway season with the New York premiere of the American Repertory Theater production of Eve Ensler's In the Body of the World.
Performances take place on Stage I within the New York City Center.
(Photos by Joan Marcus)
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