Three of the four plays at next month's Contemporary American Theater Festival have volatile political edges. Even the fourth -- a comedy about a middle-class family's meltdown -- argues that the "pursuit of happiness" is less a right than a destructive obsession. The 17th repertory festival (... -
Musings on the Middle East
Three of the four plays at next month's Contemporary American Theater Festival have volatile political edges. Even the fourth -- a comedy about a middle-class family's meltdown -- argues that the "pursuit of happiness" is less a right than a destructive obsession. The 17th repertory festival (...-
By Jane Horwitz