'LEWIS AND CLARK REACH THE EUPHRATES'
Recommended
When: Through May 18
Where: Infamous Commmonwealth Theatre at National Pasttime, 4139 N. Broadway
Tickets: $20
Phone: (773) 458-9780
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In a program note for "Lewis and Clark Cross the Euphrates" -- a clever, blackly comic, phantasmagorical, graphic novel-like chronicle that stitches together some of this country's more ill-advised historical chapters -- playwright Robert Schenkkan comes clean about his decidedly partisan view of American history.
"I have an ax to grind," he confesses. And grind it he does, to the point where even the most devoted liberal might shout: …

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