by Ash Kotter Reading plays was my tether to the stage during the 12 years I wasn’t doing theatre. In 2018, during a 3 AM nursing session with my second child, I was scrolling through a New York Times listicle about the best American plays since Angels in America. Angels had been my favorite play since I was 16, and as an arguably important piece of American theatre, I figured I'd probably want to read any play on a list invoking it. Now and again, I’d order a play from th