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American playwrights are embracing the nation's complexity. Will audiences answer the call?
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American playwrights are embracing the nation's complexity. Will audiences answer the call?

LA Times · Jun 29, 2026, 10:00 AM

Democracy is in crisis. But writers such as Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, are stepping up, dramatizing the complexities of what it means to be an American.

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