Apart from Native Americans, every family in this country arrived here from someplace else. Every immigrant group that has come to America has played out these familial tensions in domestic tragicomedy, whether on stage, film, radio, or TV. New arrivals have played out, from every conceivable angle, the story of their search for identity in their new homeland, “the melting pot where nothing melted,” as the Rabbi in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America describes it. Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & the What adds another tasty morsel to the American stew.
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