After a period in which political theatre seemed to have disappeared for awhile, politcal theatre is back in America. “Indeed, responding to a number of political exigencies — among them the elevation of George W. Bush to the presidency by the Supreme Court, the Sept. 11 attacks, the looming war in Iraq and more generally the perceptible shift to the right in national perspective — American stages have been reasserting the theater’s traditionally liberal bias with an almost vengeful fervor.”