Review: ‘sweat’ Imagines The Local Bar As A Caldron

BEN BRANTLEY, NY Times: Theater
Sun, 03/26/2017 - 7:00pm

Lynn Nottage’s bracingly topical play explores the working-class anger and anxieties that put Donald J. Trump in the White House.

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