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American Playwriting and the Anti-political Prejudice

Fuse Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American, American Playwriting and the Anti-political Prejudice, Nelson Pressley, political-theater, Richard Nelson, That Hopey Changey Thing, The Apple Family Plays

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