The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, running in New York through this weekend, was established as an outlet for shows considered too marginal for the main stage.
I contend that in these permissive days, an adversarial theater has become undistinguishable and redundant.
Onetime hippies may find something's been lost, and not just their locks. But the Central Park production is a testament to the times.
Mr. O'Horgan was a famously innovative director who brought a Downtown, countercultural sensibility to Uptown theater.
Who in Billy Elliot or In the Heights favors marriage equality? Why not let them speak at the "mobilization" rally, too?
The Public Theater's Central Park production of "Hair" is the most exuberant, middle-aged musical around.
That's not to say it's the most coherent.