American regional theater has acquired everything that Ford Foundation money could buy. Marvelously designed new playhouses in charming settings. The best of British directors. The most reputable of Broadway actors. Everything, that is, except an honest-to-God native playwright.
Now, at last, the repertory theater network has its white hope: Preston Jones, 40, author within three years of three new plays as indigenous as hominy grits. Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia and The Oldest Living Graduateknown collectively as A Texas Trilogywere brought to...