The three straight white male playwrights under review this week, of differing generations and from different regions, couldn't approach playwriting more differently. Yet they tend, surprisingly, to have the same concern on their minds. All three worry about what America has become, about what seems to be a steady downhill slide from its once-glorious standards and traditions. Even if audiences share their concern, it's striking that all three should sound the same refrain—that a rowdy and violent new play by Adam Rapp (b. 1968, Chicago, Illinois) should seem contiguous with... More >>>