![]() ![]() For that, there’s the 20th-anniversary Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog. Although these two plays are canonical studies of our nation’s vexing ideal, even they don’t quite capture the frenzied desperation of our calamitous present. At the Public Theater in New York, Robert O’Hara directs Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, a work that examines the American Dream with a shrewd dubiousness, looking past the glamour to the festering sores. On Broadway, Miranda Cromwell, director of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, reintroduces the Lomans as a Black family - a change that complicates Willy (played by Wendell Pierce) and layers his tragic end. The mythical, unwieldy concept - marked by relentless striving and repeated heartbreak - is inherently Sisyphean, resembling our senseless approach to these times. ![]() With a recession on the horizon, a year of racial protests in the rearview and a pandemic still rippling and raging, it makes sense that this season’s theater revivals lurk and pace around the American Dream. ![]()
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