New YorkNow that Horton Foote has left us, who is putting small-town America onstage in a way that is both artful and comprehending—both of its myriad flaws and its equally compelling virtues? Few contemporary playwrights seem much inclined to try. Hence the importance of the off-Broadway premiere of “Greater Clements,” the latest of Samuel D. Hunter’s plays to take place in northern Idaho, the place where he grew up and which is to his oeuvre what southeast Texas was to Mr. Foote and the not-quite-fictional Irish village...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 02, 2020 20:37 UTC