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MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Playwright Samantha Machado has been writing her first professional play since she was 17, and now, at 27, it's days from its premiere at PTE. The Incomplete Dictionary of Lexical Gaps will be showing at PTE from November 17 – 29, 2026. Reporter: Ben Waldman 261106 - Friday, November 06, 2026.