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Jeremy Dauber’s ‘American Scary’ is a thorough, witty, enlightening survey of our fascination with horror in all its forms and its intimate relationship with reality.

Jeremy Dauber’s ‘American Scary’ is a thorough, witty, enlightening survey of our fascination with horror in all its forms and its intimate relationship with reality.

Tickets include entry, entertainment, dauber and one food item.

As the legal historian Michele Landis Dauber details in her book The Sympthetic State, there is a long history of congressional appropriations based on the principle of disaster relief for “blameless victims of Providence,” predating even the New Deal—for causes as diverse as the New Madrid earthquake of 1811, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or the cotton-price failures of 1914.

Even Sibyl Wickersheimer’s set design, An-lin Dauber’s costume design, Thorn Michaels’ lighting design and Rodolfo Ortega’s sound design and compositions combine under Shana Cooper’s direction to lull you into the comfortable feeling that children’s theater can provide.