'The Twenty-Seventh Man' Examines Soviet Jewish Struggles and Politics
Fiction writer Nathan Englander makes an auspicious stage debut with his play “The Twenty-Seventh Man” at the Public Theater. Derived from his short story of the same name and based on real events, this harrowing, compact work is set in a Soviet prison and examines the power of literature and community to transcend tyranny. In 1952 the secret police of the brutal Stalinist regime have rounded up 26 promin…