You can’t turn around in the theatre world today without bumping into an on-stage characterization of the President of the United States. Ben Brantley has watched a wide array of the Bush portrayals, and is amazed at the passion the man seems to have inspired in actors and playwrights. “This wide-ranging theatrical Bush garden is the more remarkable considering that in the 1990’s, I never reviewed a work in which William Jefferson Clinton was the leading character.”