In his poem about the loneliness of a schoolteacher, playwright William Inge wrote, "Funny but being alone in a room full of people is more lonely somehow than/ Being left to your own devices at home." In his four major works, Come Back, Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Inge portrays lonesomeness and isolation as a pervasive malady affecting post-World War II United States. Count…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PM on May 18, 2025