The First Line of Dante's Inferno
The opening gesture of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno""that immortal confession of midlife disorientation in which a wanderer finds himself astray from the "straight road" and deposited in a "dark wood""has rarely felt as theatrically apt as it does in "The First Line of Dante's Inferno," Kirk Lynn's sly, searching, and disarmingly funny new experiment in staged storytelling. Lynn, a polymath of the American theater"play…