Optimum News 12 Newsday.com MSG Varsity Explore LI AM New York Optimum Autos Optimum Homes
Print Aa

Plays that send a message

November 5, 2011 11:05 AM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds up an

Photo credit: AP | Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. (Jan. 9, 2007)

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

bio

Web links

In this theater publicity image released by The More theater reviews Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes star in a Theater photos

Can theater change the world?

This is the seemingly ridiculous but very real question being tacitly asked lately by some of the most provocative theater.

In one piece, Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," the question isn't even remotely tacit. At the end of two deeply entertaining and horrifying hours about the allure of high-tech electronics and the human-rights...

Content Preview This content is exclusive for Newsday digital access and 7-day home delivery subscribers and Optimum Online® customers.

Already
registered?
Log in
Already a
subscriber/customer?
Register
Subscribe for
a free trial!
Subscribe

Related Stories

Find Newsday on Facebook

Latest Columns