In his first significant effort since his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof, playwright David Auburn delivers a biographical drama about a once famous figure little known today: Joseph Alsop, one of the most influential political columnist of his era. And like its subject, a die-hard liberal who was also an anti-Communist and fervent supporter of the Vietnam War, The Columnist is filled with contradictions. …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:38AM on April 26, 2012