A new play about climate change opened Thursday in New York that’s part-thriller, part-musical, part-educational and all-controversial.
It’s backed by Uncle Sam.
The National Science Foundation, a federal agency, usually funds research projects. But in a rare move, it gave a nearly $700,000 grant for the play “The Great Immensity,” a mystery with music and songs that’s playing at New York’s Public Theater in Manhattan.
The Brooklyn-based theater company that developed the play, The Civilians, also received two federal grants from the National Endowment for the Arts that totaled $65,000.
