When Donald Margulies' "Dinner With Friends" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, I remember admiring its attempt to probe beneath the surface of the friendships between two upscale married couples. He delicately and brutally took us up-close and personal into the assumptions and the chemistries that hold relationships together -- and then, sometimes, let them pull apart.
SOURCE: Newsday at 08:56AM on February 14, 2014