The playwright's 'Dying City,' now at Rogue Machine Theatre (and the new 'Teddy Ferrara' in Chicago), examines the damaged and what damage follows. NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-deplorable sort of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM on May 11, 2013