Congress did not have Bertolt Brecht in mind when it wrenched the government into shutdown mode early this week. But the politicians did achieve " indirectly " a small Brechtian feat Tuesday night. That evening was the scheduled press performance for Ford's Theatre's staging of "The Laramie Project," the high-profile play about the killing of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, in Laramie, Wyo. The production, pa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:25PM on October 2, 2013