L.A. Theatre Works to tour China with Pentagon Papers play
L.A. Theatre Works will embark on a two-week tour of China, performing "Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers" by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons. The play dramatizes the Washington Post's decision in 1971 to publish classified documents concerning U.S. involvment in Vietnam. Aarons was an editor at the Washington Post and drew from his experience at the newspaper to create the play.