'Disgraced' Confronts Uncomfortable Truths
When Jewish-American art dealer Isaac asks Pakistani-American corporate lawyer Amir “Did you feel pride on Sept. 11?” and gets the hesitant answer, “Yes,” everything shifts for the two couples at the center of Ayad Akhtar’s trenchant and treacherous new play “Disgraced.” That Amir immediately conveys his horror at this instinctual response ameliorates nothing. Akhtar digs dee…