Netflix bingers and bookworms normally say that art acts as a needed escape from reality. As art begins to more accurately imitate life, though, the digestion process can eat at us. Lynn Nottage’s...

  Do you ever get sick of the endless tirade of nutcrackers and leg lamps? Do you shudder inwardly when every car commercial plays “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” for the latest year, in the...