Broadway Week. Convention Theater. Unconventional Theater. Stageworthy News of the Week
How close has legitimate theater come to capturing the political theater of Presidential campaigns and party conventions, especially the real-life implausible whiplash political dramas of the last two months? There's the Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. True, it's a frothy satire, terribly outdated, in which...