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Galileo (Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13, closes Mar. 18). Bertolt Brecht's play, performed in Charles Laughton's superbly speakable translation and intimately staged by Brian Kulick with Shakespearean speed and direction. F. Murray Abraham is lean and sardonic in the title role--he looks almost like an El Greco saint--and Adrianne Lobel's set, which turns the theater into a planetarium, is perfect (TT).