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Stage preview: City Theatre premiere 'Some Brighter Distance' explores the race to the Moon. by Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Playwright Keith Reddin was commissioned by the Sloan Foundation four years ago to author a work that intersects science with the arts. One topic he considered was "a play about sex research, like the Kinseys." Then he recalled a footnote about rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph, who helped engineer America's first moon landing " and who was then deported as a Nazi war criminal.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM on January 21, 2016

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