Theater: A Weapon of War

Why is it that today’s great theater workshops are produced, directed, written and acted by people of the hard Left? A diagnosis of the situation—and a suggested cure.

We in America, it appears, tend to regard the contemporary manifestation of “theater” as an anachronistic phenomenon; charming and pretty perhaps, but definitely in a class with the sedan-chair and three-masted schooner. Didn’t “theater” go out with the waltz?