Fighting for Love: John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Nuyorican Poets Café by HowlRound

By Emma Wiseman. Founded in 1973 by a group of poets, playwrights, and musicians of color whose work was underrepresented in the mainstream arts community of New York City, the Nuyorican Poets Café is a fitting haven for Shanley's outcast protagonists. Both characters have a secret that fills them with self-loathing, and though each may think they want to drink alone, both eventually are seduced by the redemptive po…

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