American history, the nightmare from which we never awake, seems to be haunting the theater this year. Or maybe, just maybe, the presence of so many productions using the past to reflect our current national chaos is a sign that the electorate—or at least its tiny theatergoing segment—is beginning to wake up. Hard to tell: Uptown, to judge by the weekly grosses, they apparently don't want the war news even if it comes from 1918, via England, in the shape of a... More >>>