Review: A Big Thumbs Up for Bruce Norris’ Downstate

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By Brian Scott Lipton

For more than a decade, Bruce Norris has made it his job to not only write plays, but to write ones that shock, disturb, entertain, and, above all, make us think twice about even our deepest assumptions. The result has been everything from a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award (both for “Clybourne Park”) to audiences walking out at intermission (“The Pain and the Itch”). Continue Reading...