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Lynn Nottage: 'Nostalgia is a disease many white Americans have' by David Smith In Washington

Taken from interviews with residents of America's poorest city, the Pulitzer-winning playwright's Sweat has new resonance in the era of Trump and SandersWhen playwright Lynn Nottage began work on Sweat, Bernie Sanders was a little-known socialist senator, Donald Trump was a reality TV host and neither had a snowball in hell's chance of reaching the White House.But Sweat, currently playing at the Arena Stage in Washin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM on February 17, 2016

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