Yankee Tavern

Playwright Steven Dietz must have known that his 2007 comic drama about 9/11 conspiracies, Yankee Tavern, would stir controversy, but his main intention appears to have been to tell a good, solid thriller about real people caught up in an extraordinarily dark situation. The Milwaukee Rep’s production of Yankee Tavern casts Brian Vaughn as Adam, a grad student who owns a run-down bar in New York. Will Zahrn plays his friend, a barfly conspiracy theorist named Ray. The skeptical Adam quickly finds himself lost in very real danger, and his fiancée, Janet (Marti Gobel), must work to save him.