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"The Columnist" Is All Tell, Too Little Show by Jan Simpson

Maybe we should blame Joseph Alsop.  When the KGB tried to blackmail the powerful Washington columnist with a threat to reveal his homosexuality, Alsop marched straight to the U.S. embassy and confessed that the Russians had photos of him having sex with a man in a Moscow hotel room. If Alsop hadn't done that, then The Columnist, David Auburn's new play, might have had a plot. The compromising incident gets …

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AM on May 23, 2012

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