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Review: A lesson in sympathy from ‘Straight White Men’

In case you have been singing loudly with your fingers stuffed in your ears for, say, a year and a half, you have probably noticed much soul-searching in the media, along with plenty of outraged finger-wagging, about the straight white American male.

Stephen Payne, Josh Charles, Armie Hammer and Paul Schneider in 'Straight White Men.' (Photo: Joan Marcus)

In case you have been singing loudly with your fingers stuffed in your ears for, say, a year and a half, you have probably noticed much soul-searching in the media, along with plenty of outraged finger-wagging, about the straight white American male. There are, for one, the forgotten men of the middle classes who voted a dubiously qualified straight white man into office (with help from some of their better-off brothers and sisters), but also the men in Hollywood and elsewhere whose bad behavior has made for endless headlines, and brought some once-mighty figures low.

So you might expect that “Straight White Men,” a comedy on Broadway, would approach the species in question with a smirk. Especially if you knew that the author of the play, Young Jean Lee, happens to be an Asian-American woman.

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