'Race' and veracity at Theater J
There are no shades of gray in David Mamet's provocative legal drama Race, which deals with guilt and innocence, truth and fabrication, in black and white. For Mamet, race is everything in a case concerning a wealthy white man accused of rape by a black hotel housekeeper. That Mamet's 2009 drama predates the sordid, real-life headline grabber, when the former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique St…