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[bed-luhm] / ˈbɛd ləm /


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But the Bedlam theater company’s choice to mount a production of “Othello” using just a quartet of performers has a certain literary justification.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard’s cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2023

“And it’s good for the Oklahoma State people to finish Bedlam with a win. Period.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023

In another character, he was, probably briefly, “Hog Wild Tony Holzer, a Bundle of Bedlam in Beverly Hills.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

And if I lived in Dickensian England, I would have been thrown into Bedlam, which is more than just a description of madness.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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