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Northshore October 2025
Writer Israel HorovitzProlific playwright and Massachusetts native Israel Horovitz is the heartbeat behind Gloucester's theater scene. By Julie Batten - Photographs by Dana SmithIt used to be that on a hot afternoon in July, the Horovitz family of Wakefield would pile themselves into the family car and head up to Pleasant Pond in South Hamilton, where the senior Horovitz, Julius, had bought a lakeside "shack" for $1,200."We were really more on the swamp side of the lake," explains Julius's son, the internationally renowned playwright Israel Horovitz, over breakfast at Zeke's in Gloucester one day this past summer. "That's really w
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