Sex and Real Estate.(The Talk of the Town)(The Glass House)(Theater review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 30-APR-07

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Plays about architects don't have much of a track record in New York, at least not since Ibsen's "The Master Builder." In January, the Times dismissed a new play about Frank Lloyd Wright as a "dreary drama" that focussed too much on Wright's tirades against contractors, a subject that, however easy it may be for people to identify with, doesn't make for stirring theatre. But things might turn out differently for "The Glass House," a new play that explores the story of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, which was completed in 1951, outside Chicago, if only because it is...

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