I saw the Los Angeles premiere of Bruce Norris’s “A Parallelogram” four years ago, and remember almost nothing about it. Having just seen the first New York production of this gently nihilistic comedy ...

A high-toned concept combined with disagreeable characters and a jaded worldview provided the formula for Bruce Norris’ bracing retort to “A Raisin in the Sun,” “Clybourne Park,” the Pulitzer ...

Quite so. The problem with parallelograms is that they’re a con. They tell you that finding the area is simple: it’s base · height. Easy peasy! But what’s the height? Crap. The length of the sides isn ...

The base and perpendicular height are at right angles. Showing that a parallelogram has the same area as a rectangle: Split the parallelogram into a right-angled triangle and a trapezium. Move the ...