Accompanying the hoopla of reaching 250 (Tall Ships and fireworks and patriotic singing) is an unfortunate urge to sum up America and everything in it, including theater. In a NY Times podcast that asked 23 contributors the most American thing on their beat, theater critic Helen Shaw answered: August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, the ten plays (including “Fences”...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AM on July 6, 2026