David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America,
Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver.
Paul Birchall was taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre,
Last of the Knotts. Find all the latest
New Theater Reviews after the jump.
Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama for the second play in her "Elliot trilogy," Water by the Spoonful, about a U.S. soldier returning from Iraq to his hometown, Philadelphia, and working in a doughnut shop. That trilogy's opening play, Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer finalist in 2007. Water by the Spoonful nudged out two other excellent finalists, Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, about the political reverberations within a Palm Springs family; and Stephen Karam's comedy about capricious tragedy, Sons of the Prophet. (Yours truly chaired this year's nominating drama jury, which included Newsday's theater critic, Linda Winer; CUNY;s David Savran; Rohan Preston, theater critic of the Minneapolis Star Tribune; and last year's Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Bruce Norris.)
Check out this coming week's stage feature on Waiting for Godot at the Taper, Billy Elliot at the Pantages and In Paris at the Broad.
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