Article: Sharply drawn tension in Miller's `Broken Glass'.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Theater)

It is 1938. In Germany, the Nazi tide is rising. In Brooklyn, a housewife suddenly cannot move her legs.

Playwright Arthur Miller has made a fabulous career of establishing connections between intimate domestic dramas and wide social concerns, and he does it again in his bruising 1994 drama, "Broken Glass." Sylvia Gellburg, the paralyzed housewife, can't get her mind off the mounting horrors against Jews in Germany. Her husband, Phillip, broods about her health and about his job security at a bank where he is the only Jewish employee.

Not that Phillip is being persecuted on the job. He is uncomfortable with his Jewishness, and it makes him ...

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