Every playwriting student sooner or later learns Chekhov's dictum: A gun introduced in the first half of a play must be discharged in the second. Usually the gun is literal, but Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer prize last year for Disgraced, takes a novel approach in his follow-up drama, ... More »
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:15AM on June 18, 2014