Joseph Heller's play was first seen in New Haven, as it happens, in a Yale production with Stacey Keach in a leading role. It went to Broadway in 1968 and had a respectable run. It is a tribute to the playwright that, reading the play 50 years later, it is possible to imagine a relevant and hilarious staging today. Problems of war, death, and individual autonomy never go stale in the hands of a skilled writer.
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