A great play shouldn’t lull you into satisfaction. It should outrage you, challenge your preconceptions, maybe even drain you emotionally. And if there’s a play out there that ticks all those boxes, it’s Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” (Public). The setting is a campus in an unnamed city, where Asaf Sternheim (Josh Radnor from “How I Met Your Mother”) is an adjunct professor teaching a writing course. He advises his students to write what they know, and Baron, a Black student, writes about the accidental killing of his cousin by the local police. Asaf is impressed by the young man’s gift and a friendship is forged.
Theater: “The Ally” directed by Itamar Moses
Theater: “The Ally” directed by Itamar Moses
Theater: “The Ally” directed by Itamar Moses
A great play shouldn’t lull you into satisfaction. It should outrage you, challenge your preconceptions, maybe even drain you emotionally. And if there’s a play out there that ticks all those boxes, it’s Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” (Public). The setting is a campus in an unnamed city, where Asaf Sternheim (Josh Radnor from “How I Met Your Mother”) is an adjunct professor teaching a writing course. He advises his students to write what they know, and Baron, a Black student, writes about the accidental killing of his cousin by the local police. Asaf is impressed by the young man’s gift and a friendship is forged.