A local group of stalwart playwrights that goes under the name of 36 North is in the middle of its seasonal series of staged readings, titled Script-in-Hand Reading Series. The free summer readings, ...

• American playwrights, recognizing that identity is more complicated and slippery than ideology, have been shedding fresh light on what it means to be an American. • Writers such as Young Jean Lee, ...

The American democratic experiment stands on shaky ground. Not since the Civil War have these proverbially United States been so disunited. As the nation throws itself a grand old 250th birthday bash ...