September 11, 2001 had a profound effect upon New York's theater community, on both personal and artistic levels. The Flea Theater, located below Canal Street and not too far from the site of the World Trade Center, is now producing its second major show reacting to the tragedy. The first, Anne Nelson's The Guys, was a moving drama about a female journalist who uses her writing skills to help a fire captain compose eulogies for his men who died on that fateful day. Emotional without being overly sentimental, the play was an intimate, gut-level response to a horrific tragedy. The Flea's latest production, A.R. Gurney's O Jerusalem, takes a completely different approach: Cross-cutting between [...]