At a production of the play "Faith Healer" at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, an actress playing a chain-smoking character was interrupted in the middle of her monologue by a member of the audience who hectored her about cancer and declared that the theater was a non-smoking venue. Management later placed signs in the lobby warning that actors smoke onstage, though the playwright and the director changed the play to make the offending character smoke less.

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