Today's dramatists struggle to define the terms of contemporary drama for an audience that seems as uncertain about what constitutes a good play as they are.Sitting through a succession of new plays on a recent visit to New York, I was reminded of car trips as a child with my grandmother behind the wheel of her gigantic red Lincoln Continental. Her destination was clear, but her route, like those of the playwrights w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM on December 25, 2011