UNDERWATER BLUES.(Caroline, or Change)(Theater Review)

Nancy Franklin on HBO's "Angels in America"

From 1992, Arthur Lubow on Tony Kushner

There are moments in the history of theatre when stagecraft takes a new turn. I like to think that this happened for the American musical last week, when Tony Kushner's "Caroline, or Change" (at the Public), a collaboration with the composer Jeanine Tesori and the director George C. Wolfe, bushwhacked a path beyond the narrative dead end of the deconstructed, overfreighted musicals of the past thirty years. In place of the slick grab bag of boulevard distraction, "Caroline, or Change" offers the complexity of psychology and of history. Set in 1963, in a suburban enclave ...