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‘Summer, 1976’ Review: Bicentennial Buddies

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Rocky. New Yorkers were being terrorized by one of their own, serial killer David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), and Washingtonians were treated to their first 4.6 miles of mass transit as the Metro Authority opened five stations on the red line.Meanwhile playwright David Auburn had just turned 7.

Either his precociousness served him well or he did a great deal of research to capture the zeitgeist of America’s bicentennial year in his poignant new play, Summer, 1976 (★★★☆☆).Laura Linney, fresh on the heels of her long-running Netflix drama Ozark returns to Manhattan Theater Club where she’s previously received rave reviews for her work in Time Stands Still, The Little Foxes, and My Name is Lucy Barton.

To have her back on the New York stage is well worth celebrating.This time, she plays Diana, a somewhat uptight academic adjunct professor at Ohio State University.

Diana has a feigned fondness for German expressionist painter Paul Klee and a snobbish disdain towards those she deems less cultured than herself.

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