October 13, 2011 5:08 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com
Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,
People probably knew this, deep down, eons before Tolstoy made it his first sentence in "Anna Karenina" in 1873. But that observation -- "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" -- has burrowed so far into the psyche of the American theater that domestic crises often seem the only subjects considered worth the drama.
This obsession with, pardon the expression,...
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