Review: As blue collar jobs leave a Pennsylvania town, Lynn Nottage's 'Sweat' reveals the racial faultlines left behind
LOS ANGELES - The state of the nation play has a long tradition in Britain, where playwrights are encouraged to think of the theater as a public forum, a place to debate issues of the day and track shifts in the collective narrative.
The genre, of course, has an American pedigree too. Arthur Miller and Tony Kushner have written urgent political dramas that have advanced our national dialogue. But for too long, our dramatists have been more preoccupied with family affairs and identity crises than economic realities and race relations.
"Sweat," Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set in a faltering factory town in
