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Privilege takes center stage

From left: Stephen Payne vies for a seat on the couch with Josh Charles, Armie Hammer and Paul Schneider. In the play, the three brothers use physical comedy to connect

STRAIGHT WHITE MEN IS DISTINGUISHED BY SEVERAL notable firsts. It’s the first Broadway play written by an Asian-American woman. (What took so long?) It’s heartthrob Armie Hammer’s Broadway debut. (More please.) And it likely marks the first appearance on Broadway of the adolescent male form of

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