NEW YORK—“Isn’t a place about the people in it?” asks one of the characters in Greg Pierce’s new play, “Cardinal.” The play offers a lesson on the often unforeseen ramifications of urban renewal.
A small, unnamed town in upstate New York is facing an all-too-familiar fate. With the shutting down of the town’s major source of employment (a factory where car axles were made), unemployment has risen, younger people have started moving away, and more and more homes are being abandoned or boarded up.
