Staging Your Own Theatrical Table Reading

NYTimes.com: I’m a fan of reading plays — new ones, old ones — as literature, and I have written before about how Americans are missing out by not keeping up, on the page, with the best theater in New York City and elsewhere. The only thing better than reading a play yourself is reading it with people you like, a fact I am reminded of by the opening tomorrow of Roman Polanski’s new film “Carnage.”