The Problems of "Straight White Men"

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 17, 2014

Young Jean Lee, playwright, director and artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (motto: destroy the audience), discusses her new play in which a father and his adult sons gather to celebrate Christmas and end up facing the question of how to live a moral life in the face of privileges granted to "Straight White Men."

⇒"Straight White Men" opens officially today and plays through December 7 at The Public Theater. 

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