Even its title vibrates vertiginously with layers of meaning. Most literally, “White Noise,” Suzan-Lori Parks’s enthrallingly thought-packed new play at the Public Theater, refers to the whoosh generated by those much-used, soothing sound makers designed to lull people to sleep. Blessed unconsciousness, it appears, is not a state that Leo can afford to be in it right now. Nor, it seems, can any American, not when it comes to dealing with people of other skin colors. Like the two couples at the center of Ms. Parks’s play, which opened on Wednesday and has been directed with a radiant clarity by Oskar Eustis.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2019 01:41 UTC