Ayad Akhtar, the Milwaukee-bred writer of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Disgraced," a work about Muslim-American identity, is not an entirely subtle playwright. But he is very gifted at conjuring smart, funny characters and upending easily accepted stereotypes in unexpected and surprising ways. The latest example of his approach to some of the quandaries of contemporary existe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:11PM on June 22, 2015