Theater: Dmrama

Variety.

While money continued to be the overriding factor in what constituted Broadway "success," ensuring the domination of musicals, an eclectic mix of notable new dramatic works found their audiences. John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, a demonstration of physical closeness and psychological isolation, represented the best Broadway had to offer in the 1990s. Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter exemplified how a political whispering campaign ruined the chances of a woman from a prominent family awaiting Senate confirmation as surgeon general. August Wilson continued his look at the black experience in America with Two Trains Running, set in a Pittsburgh luncheonette in 1969. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers focused on a mildly retarded woman who planned to marry a similarly handicapped usher whom she has met a few...

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