Diplomatic Circles

Why spending $30,000 on Broadway tickets could be smart federal policy: Powers

Taking high-ranking U.S. officials to a play about a fuzzy Canada-U.S. moment could be money well spent.

Come From Away, a musical about Newfoundlanders taking in Americans forced to take shelter in their town on 9/11, is still showing on Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York. Photograph courtesy of Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue, Flickr

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

August 9, 2017

Two weeks ago, I had the occasion to see the truly moving Broadway production Come from Away. Theatre reviews are not my specialty, but to say the show was emotionally powerful would be an understatement of gross proportions. Come from Away captures the stories of Newfoundlanders ...

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