What Kind Of Theatre, Exactly, Do ‘We Need Now More Than Ever’?

Broadway this season has pure escapism, like “Hello, Dolly,” and socially engaged theatre, exemplified by Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat.” The problem isn’t either one, argues critic Jonathan Mandell. “Escapist fare is most irksome not when it focuses on something other than the world’s concerns, but when it demonstrates an active indifference to those concerns.”