Accompanying the hoopla of reaching 250 (Tall Ships and fireworks and patriotic singing) is an unfortunate urge to sum up America and everything in it, including theater. In a NY Times podcast that asked 23 contributors the most American thing on their beat, theater critic Helen Shaw answered: August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, the ten plays (including “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson”) that Wilson set in each of the 10 decades of the 20th …
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