"Drama's vitallest expression is the common day / That arise and set about us," wrote the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson " words that would suit as a preamble to many of Annie Baker's plays. Not that Baker's work itself is common. Rather, the playwright succeeds in isolating a kind of wild, often hilarious tension in situations that seem confoundingly unremarkable: a series of theater classes in a communi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PM on February 4, 2016