NEW YORK—Joshua Harmon’s “Admissions,” now playing at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in Manhattan, covers a lot of ground: political correctness, discrimination and the reverse of it, white privilege, affirmative action. And hypocrisy.
Set in a ritzy Northeastern prep school, liberal-minded Sherri Rosen-Mason (Jessica Hecht) reigns as head of admissions. Both she and her husband Bill, who is the headmaster (Andrew Garman), have worked tirelessly to promote diversity in the institution.
