A view on the Catskills, from the outside looking in
The glory days of the resorts in the Catskills are familiar objects of "Dirty Dancing" nostalgia and totems of a vanished mode of leisure with a proud showbiz tradition. But there is no shrewder analysis of the complexities of that repressive era than Richard Greenberg's fine 1990 drama, "The American Plan," which points out with compassion and wisdom that the diversity — ethnic, sexual, intellectual — of…