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...applaud TIME's decision to spend a year in Detroit looking at the city's and region's challenges and efforts at revitalization [Oct. 5]. However, I find it curious that you start intensive research into the city with an opinion piece by a resident of New York who left Michigan four decades ago. With all due respect to the acclaimed Daniel Okrent, simply reciting old grievances repeatedly rejected by voters, such as my having "resisted ... more stringent mileage standards," seems counterintuitive to the magazine's mission. I would ask that Okrent take another look at my work...
...daughter. Yet now he's a Broadway hot ticket. True, he has a couple of big movie stars to thank--Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, who were somehow persuaded to star in his play A Steady Rain. But they're only helping affirm a hard truth for New York City's sometimes insular theater community: the Chicagoans are taking over...
...this fall: a revival of his 1992 drama Oleanna and a new play, about black-white tensions at a law firm, titled Race. Meanwhile, hot Chicago director David Cromer--whose moving, teacup-size revival of Our Town is a megahit downtown--will tackle the work of that quintessential New York wiseacre, Neil Simon, directing revivals of his autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound...
...disadvantage of seeming dated today. But collectively, they showcase much of what makes Chicago theater so distinct and vital. The City of Big Shoulders produces big-shouldered theater as well--thematically ambitious, emotionally juiced, socially impassioned. It's a contrast to the hothouse quality of so much current New York theater: wispy memory plays, absurdist satires, Manhattan-centric relationship dramas, many written by gay playwrights on gay themes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But there's a big country out there, and right now the freshest breezes onstage are blowing in from the Windy City...