Sweat

Celebrated playwright Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner is set in a bar in Reading, Pennsylvania—one of the poorest cities in America at the time Nottage researched her play—where a group of factory workers, facing the Rust Belt’s exodus of heavy industry, face layoffs and in-fighting. Labor, race and politics coalesce in Nottage’s sweeping work, set over an eight-year period.