The theatre has the power"more like the prerogative"to warp reality to suit its own ends, exiting the literal world through whatever trapdoors it creates. Why does an angel crash through a gay man's ceiling in "Angels in America" and declare him a prophet? Because Tony Kushner said so. In screenwriting, there's always talk of the "rules": the time machine only works at eighty-eight miles per hour, etc. Onstage, suspe…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 05:34PM on November 17, 2015