Take Me Out

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Tracking Take Me Out -- Richard Greenberg's discussion of baseball as intoxicating national sport and all-purpose metaphor -- from its initial production at
London's Donmar Warehouse through its presentation at the Public Theater to its Broadway transfer is like following a favorite team through the regular season, then to the play-offs and, ultimately, the World Series. It's no shock when the dream team comes through its final test victoriously, but along the way there are enough bobbled balls in the outfield and missed slides into third to shake up your beliefs.

Now that the prolific Greenberg's most authoritative opus has arrived on the Great White
Way, adding strong Tony prospects to it[...]

Baseball has just had a layer of pungent icing slathered on the cake that was last week's averted strike. It's Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg's part valentine, part poison-pen letter to the national pastime. If this thoughtful, acerbic, and frequently impassioned work isn't quite the dramatic equivalent of a home run with the bases loaded, it's at least a triple that drives in multiple runs and raises the prolific playwright's batting average to well over .400. Though Greenberg can't pocket the MVP award for his services at season's end, he'll be among those considered for the Pulitzer Prize as a result of what he uses baseball to say about intolerance and the dark ends to which it often[...]