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Check out a first look at production photos from Playhouse on Park's Connecticut premiere of Lydia R. Diamond's Toni Stone here!

On Dec. 14, Jackie Hegarty of Newtown, Connecticut, knows her phone will be "flooded" with messages, as it is each year on that day, the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. Hegarty, a Sandy Hook survivor, lost 20 young classmates and six educators in that shooting, which marks its somber 10th remembrance this year. This year, Hegarty said many of the messages she receives will be from people who weren't there that day with her, but who know exactly how it feels to survive a school shooting.

The new comedy "Webster's Bitch" at Playhouse on Park could use some sharper definition but a lot of the workplace comedy works just fine.

Paula Vogel's "Indecent," at Playhouse on Park through Feb. 26, remains an important play about art, politics and religion, enlivened by klezmer music, a melodramatic play-within-a-play and some vaudeville showtunes.

Playhouse on Park's production of August Wilson's "Fences" honors the text but has some weaknesses. The show runs through Nov. 20 in West Hartford.