A New York Beach House Set the Stage for Playwright John Guare (WSJ Repost)

A heartwarming article about a playwright’s fond childhood memories of summers in Atlantic Beach on Long Island in the 1930s. At age 11, John Guare and his friend from the summer neighborhood put on their first play. At age 81, Guare’s new play “Nantucket Sleigh Ride,” is at New York’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center Theater.