Review of Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day at the Public Theater
A Bright Room Called Day, now at the Public Theater, first breathed life back in 1985. We know this because playwright Tony Kushner appears as a character in the story about 10 minutes in and tells us. Mind you, he is not identified as Kushner. He is not named anywhere except the program. He is Xillah (Jonathan Hadary), and presents himself as the author in a quandary. This is the play he wrote 34 years ago. It never worked until Trump was elected - and now everyone wants to produce it, but it...