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Theatre

A play for bureaucrats: David Hare's Straight Line Crazy reviewed

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

Straight Line Crazy

Bridge Theatre, until 18 June

The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas

Jermyn Street Theatre, until 16 April

It’s good of Nicholas Hytner to let Londoners see David Hare’s new play before it travels to Broadway where it belongs. Few Brits will know the subject, Robert Moses, an urban planner of the 1920s who built the roads and bridges that gave New Yorkers access to seaside resorts in Long Island.

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