CMU School of Drama


Monday, September 04, 2023

The Labor Play in a Time of Labor Strikes

New York Theater: On a Labor Day when Hollywood writers and actors have been on strike for months now, there is a fitting if startling answer this year to the question I ask every Labor Day, which is a legal holiday created by Congress in 1884 to celebrate not the American barbecue but the American labor union movement: Where are the American plays about labor — about workers, or workplaces, or unions?

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