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Tonya Pinkins as Myrna and Angela Lewis as

Photo credit: Ari Mintz/ | Tonya Pinkins as Myrna and Angela Lewis as Annie in Playwrights Horizons presentation of Kirsten Greenidge's new play, "Milk Like Sugar" directed by Rebecca taichman. (October 12, 2011.)

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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"If you had spent more time on the plot, you may have landed a celebrity."

This is the only line that stuck with me after 21/2 hours of "The Atmosphere of Memory," the mind-bogglingly inept new play that recently opened the Labyrinth Theater Company's hip 99-seat home in the far west end of Greenwich Village.

Until the Lab made its smash Broadway debut last season with Stephen Adly Guirgis'...

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