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Rob Ackerman doesn’t take success too well.

“When my PR guy called and said John Simon had written a good review, I yelled at him,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Don’t fuck with me!’ “

Ackerman, author of the play Tabletop, is getting better at taking compliments. His play—a manic treatise on truth, justice and advertising as seen by a crew of commercial production workers seeking the perfect product closeup (the “tabletop” shot)—is one of the season’s big hits.



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