Around three-thirty yesterday afternoon, Richard Nelson made his final edits to a project that has spanned this parlous political season: a trilogy of quiet and sad dramas called "The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family," at the Public Theatre. We've had to pluck sprigs of humanity where we can find them this year, and Nelson's plays have offered them up, humbly. His goal has been not to repackage the s…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 03:46PM on November 9, 2016