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Notes From the Underbelly; Hookers, losers, nutjobs and all that jazz take the stage in a retrospective of Stephen Goldberg's daring drama

"This is where the humans live," Stephen Goldberg says, gesturing to the living room of his Killarney Drive home in Burlington's New North End. A right turn and a flight of stairs takes us down to the studio where the playwright and jazz trumpeter writes and records. Considering the characters Goldberg creates here -- some of the most unctuous to ever grace local stages -- the contrast with his suburban upstairs is stark.

It was here that he invented the characters for Don and Tom, cellmates in a prison for the criminally insane; Don's a pedophile murderer and Tom killed his parents as a kid. Tortured philosophy professor Arnold Gold, of Arnie Gets It Good, also dwelt here, in Goldberg's ...

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