THE GREATEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL PLAY EVER, WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF SHAKESPEARE
(Rebecca Mead's article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/11; Mike Bartlett Illustration by João Fazenda.) A few years ago, the British playwright Mike Bartlett offered an ingenious take on future events in "King Charles III," a drama that appeared in the West End, and then on Broadway, about the Royal Family in the imagined wake of […]