social justice – San Diego Story

Of Lynn Nottage’s two Pulitzer-Prize-winning plays, Sweat is the lesser. San Diego Repertory Theatre nevertheless gives it a powerful production that could leave audiences enthralled.

Even though the Rep gives Ms. Hartman’s work a fine production, her play is weakened by indecision about whether it is a social justice story or a personal story…

After being bombarded with the angry and sometimes empty rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, it is almost a relief to escape to the theatre and hear important questions affecting the U. S. debated with both substance and skill…