The Short Version: We often talk of the bravery and spirit of firefighters – but what of their families, their wives, their siblings, their children? Ashes tells the stories of five generations of powerful, magnificent women in a family where fighting fires is in the blood, from coming to Brooklyn at the tail end of the Famine to the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, and everything that happens along the way. The Review: There was a play that was produced several years ago called Sweet […]

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