Stepping Up With a Throwback
New Yorker illustration by Pascal BlanchetI was one of the few critics who unreservedly loved Jordan Harrison's last play at Playwrights Horizons, Doris to Darlene, a Cautionary Valentine. But Maple and Vine, which I saw at Humana in April, felt like a breakthrough work for the 34-year-old playwright.In researching and talking to him and his collaborators for this Times piece, in anticipation of the play's current Pl…