Dan O'Brien's gripping and provocative play, "The Body of an American" speaks to a moment in recent history when a single, stark photograph - of the body of an American dragged from the wreck of a Blackhawk through the streets of Mogadishu - reshaped the course of global events. In a story ranging far in time and place, from Rwanda to Afghanistan to the Canadian Arctic, and in powerful, theatrical language, Dan O'Brien explores the ethical and personal consequences of Paul Watson's photograph, as well as the interplay between political upheaval and the experience of trauma in an age saturated...

Having her best childhood friend move to the same small town she lived in, Carrie Dexter was ecstatic. It wasn't long before her own insecurities got the best of her, changing her, making her become unpleasant to the people who loved her the most; pushing her to the edge, perhaps to the point of abandoning her family. Moving to a new town to start fresh seemed to be just what the doctor ordered for Madeline Tucker. Giving up the years she spent with the same company to learn it from the ground up; when she realized she could go no farther. Moving to be near her best childhood friend and kick...