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'In the Next Room' opens at Lyceum Theatre

In the Next Room is a play by Sarah Ruhl. It concerns the early history of the vibrator when doctors allegedly used it as a clinical device to bring women to orgasm as a treatment for "hysteria." Other themes include Victorian ignorance of female sexual desire, motherhood, breastfeeding, and jealousy. The play was nominated for 3 Tony Awards.

Van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction

Self-portrait without beard was the third most expensive painting ever sold at the time. The post-impressionist painting was probably Van Gogh's final self-portrait and was given to his mother as a birthday gift.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1933

Larry King

born 1936

Dick Cavett