We Can't Go Back.(author comments on terrorist attacks on World Trade Center)(Brief Article)(Column)

American Theatre, October, 2001

While the October Season Preview issue of American Theatre is always a cause for jubilation, it's hard to feel jubilant here in New York City these days.

Two mornings ago, my reading on the commuter train was interrupted by the conductor saying, "If you Look out of the right window, you can see the World Trade Center burning." There was a huge gasp and instant conjecture--an air conditioning unit gone wrong? A fire at the restaurant? It couldn't be another terrorist attack, could it?

Little did we know then, of course.

In the hours and days since, life here has been a combination of wailing sirens and eerie silence. Of distant rumbles and billowing smoke. Of continuing disbelief every time I look at the skyline. Of e-mails flying fast...

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