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Good grief Charlie Brown! The off-broadway hit Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead has come to Newtown’s King Street Theatre, to show us what happens when the kids from Charles M Shultz’s Peanuts comic strip grow up and face the challenges of adolescence. It’s the characters we know and love, but with lashings of sex, drugs, violence and teenage angst, resulting in a mixed but competent production. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead uses visual clues and memory-testing references to identify the audience with the grown-up incarnations of the Peanuts characters. The play opens, fittingly, with Charlie Brown, re-titled “CB”, in his signature zig-zagged t-shirt giving an emotional address about the recent death of his rabid dog, that we know to be the ubiquitous Snoopy. It’s a sad way for Snoopy to throw off his canine coil and sets the tone for the rest of the play. CB gives us a guided tour of his world and introduces us to each of the other characters ...

Sure, we're generally not known for our coverage of off-Broadway work but in this instance, we make an exception. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is an award winning off-Broadway work which is not only based upon Charles M. Schultz' much loved comic Peanuts but it is also the brainchild of Bert V. Royal, the man behind the very funny film, Easy A .  Be sure and check back soon for Stu's review of the opening night performance but in the meantime, c heck out all of the details and a teaser trailer after the jump!