New York City: Dante in the southwest.(Front and Center)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, February, 2004 by Gener, Randy
"I WAS TRYING TO BE ON MY BEST behavior here," says Howard Korder, with a laugh. The author of such large-scale provocations as The Lights, Search and Destroy and Hollow Lands strikes an ironic tone to explain the smaller domestic canvas of his latest satire, Sea of Tranquility. "I thought the most prudent thing to do next would not be a play that covers 40 years of 19th-century American history with a cast of 16 actors playing 37 roles.
It's a willful decision on my part. My flip take is that this is a middlebrow play about middle-class people by a middle-aged man. ...
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