The Grass Is Really No Greener Next Door
Charles IsherwoodOctober 22, 2010: CHICAGO — The backyard barbecue, that homey symbol of suburban togetherness, occasions conflagrations emotional and literal in the terrific new play “Detroit,” by Lisa D’Amour, at the Steppenwolf Theater here. This scary-funny comedy, set in a nameless housing tract possibly, but not necessarily, outside the city of the title, speaks to the fractious, frightened American moment more perceptively than any play I’ve seen on a New York stage.
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