Review: Blazing A New Trail Through A Familiar ‘passage’

BEN BRANTLEY, NY Times: Theater
Sun, 05/05/2019 - 6:45pm

Christopher Chen’s contemplative drama at Soho Rep uses E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” as a template for exploring, and exploding, nationalism.

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