Has Theatre Become Irrelevant When It Comes To Social Commentary?

“For too long, dramatists and directors, following the cues of marketing-mad producers and lowest-common-subscriber-oriented artistic directors, have been reflecting the vain self-regard and superficial profundity of a relatively small swath of the country’s population — affluent urban theatergoers. Seduced by the new turbocharged American dream (or at least complicit with it), these artists haven’t been in the best position to critique its hedge-fund-era perversion.”