New Drama 'Jerusalem' Thrills, but Revivals 'House of Blue Leaves' and 'Born Yesterday' Need Revising
The prologue to The House of Blue Leaves--John Guare's breakthrough play, a depressing, surrealist comedy that premiered Off Broadway in 1971--tells you everything you need to know about Artie Shaughnessy, its unheroic hero. He's performing at an amateur night, sitting at a piano and playing the would-be-Tin Pan Alley ditties he's written, between songs desperately pleading for bar patrons to stop talking and pay att…