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Women are flying solo, on Broadway and off

March 15, 2013 3:43 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

Tina Benko as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the

Photo credit: AP | Tina Benko as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the one-woman play, "Jackie," by the Women's Project Theatre at New York City Center in Manhattan.

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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Well, it's Women's History Month again. Stifle that shrug. The theater -- no doubt by happenstance -- is suddenly flush with biographical solos about women, all dead, most recently and one not recent at all.

As we speak, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is being brilliantly, brutally yet compassionately deconstructed by actress Tina Benko in Nobel-Prize winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek's...

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