Car Crash

Just what New York City needs in 2022: a play about Robert Moses conjured up by the British and staged at Hudson Yards. Straight Line Crazy, the new drama written by David Hare and starring Ralph Fiennes, attracted a sold-out crowd of Manhattanites for its U.S. debut last week after playing in London earlier this year; tickets for the two-month run are impossible to get. The fact that New York’s theatergoing crowd might take this play seriously as urban-planning history—and as urban-planning present and future—is a sign of how shallowly we understand ourselves.