'Sweat' review: Lynn Nottage gives intimate glimpse of lost factory life
For a brief moment before the November election, the news was filled with stories about disenfranchised blue-collar voters in the Rust Belt. At the same time, smack in the eye of the news cycle, "Sweat" -- Lynn Nottage's drama about lives destroyed when factories moved to Mexico from Reading, Pennsylvania -- had a justly celebrated Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater.