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The Chairs & The Lesson--Two Ionesco one-acters, one sad and one funny. At WHEELOCK THEATRE, 180 The Riverway (566-9583).

A Collier's Friday Night--D. H. Lawrence. At the LITTLE THEATRE, Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T. (UN 4-6900, ext. 2910).

Dear World--A relentlessly dull musical, with little but the beautiful Angela Lansbury to recommend it. Joe Layton has just become this show's third director to date, and Jerry Herman wrote the unhelpful score. Pre-Broadway try-out at the COLONIAL (426-9366).

eh? --A daffy and funny play by Henry Livings, directed by Howard Bay. At SPINGOLD THEATRE, Brandeis (894-4343).

Endgame--Samuel Beckett's play, an absurdist's version of "King Lear" as some would have it. At TEMPO THEATRE, 130-34 Lincoln Street (338-7081).

I Had to Buy a Ticket to the Free Matinee & Up Yours, Arthur Miller--Well, what can one say? Two one-acters at the LOEB EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE (UN 4-2630).

The Indian Wants the Bronx & It's Called the Sugar Plum--Two one-acters by Israel Horovitz, a new American playwright to be reckoned with. To be reviewed tomorrow. At QUINCY HOUSE.

Iphigenia in Aulis--A radical interpretation of the Euripides tragedy. At the CARAVAN THEATRE, 1555 Mass. Ave.(491-9579).

Marat-Sade--The Peter Weiss play performed by Wellesley girls? Heaven help us. At the WELLESLEY COLLEGE THEATRE, Alumnae Hall, Wellesley.

The Millionairess--Possibly Bernard Shaw's last great play, at any rate one of his funniest. Not to be confused with the movie of the same title, or the now-defunct TV series. At the CHARLES, 76 Warrenton (542-3325).

More Stately Mansions--The unfinished Eugene O'Neill play that picks up where "Touch of the Poet" left off. In its second American production at the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON, 136 Mass. Ave. (426-6609).

Murder in the Cathedral--T.S. Eliot. At the HUB THEATRE CENTER, 131 Cambridge St. (227-5088).

Pantagleize--Michel de Ghelderode's farce to make you sad. At DUNSTER HOUSE.

The Proposition--A local satirical revue that has its fans. At 241 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge.