The arts don’t exist in a vacuum.

When he picked three shows set in the “swamp” of Washington, D.C, for Asolo Repertory Theatre’s new season, producing artistic director Michael Donald Edwards knew they would start around the inauguration of a new president. But there was no way he could have anticipated how the tough election campaign would divide the nation.

The unexpected (in some quarters) election of Donald J. Trump may well impact how audiences respond to Robert Schenkkan’s “The Great Society,” his follow-up to last season’s hit “All the Way”; John Strand’s “The Originalist,” about controversial but respected Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; and even Garson Kanin’s classic 1948 comedy “Born Yesterday” about a businessman trying to influence political decisions to benefit his companies. To read more, click here.