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Prize for ‘2’: Romulus Linney’s “2” has been named the best new play that opened outside New York last year by the American Theatre Critics Assn. Linney wins $1,000, and excerpts from “2” and the runners-up--Scott McPherson’s “Marvin’s Room,” produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and Anthony Clarvoe’s “Pick Up Axe,” produced at San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre--will be included in the 1989-90 edition of the Burns Mantle Theatre Yearbook.