"A Civil War Christmas"- A Yuletide Tale with a Sobering Backdrop
By Judd Hollander It's not easy to combine the intimate with the epic, but playwright Paula Vogel has done just that with A Civil War Christmas, now at New York Theatre Workshop. Set in and around Washington, D.C. and told in the style of a sweeping tableau, the story looks at various individuals on both sides of the American Civil War, along with those caught in between, on a cold Christmas Eve in 1864. Among …