![]() ![]() ![]() The play premiered in New York in 1997, starring David Morse and Mary Louise Parker, and is now back in town for the first time in 15 years in a Second Stage revival starring Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Reaser. How I Learned to Drive, which explores the complicated relationship between a socially isolated young girl and her uncle, is certainly no exception. In plays like The Oldest Profession, And Baby Makes Seven, Hot 'N Throbbing, The Mineola Twins and The Baltimore Waltz, Vogel has always sought to find the theatricality in stories with traditionally controversial issues, from prostitution and pornography to AIDS and domestic violence. Long before the earning the imprimatur of a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive in 1998, playwright Paula Vogel wasn’t pulling any punches. ![]()
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