McNamara era is explored

Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, April 9, 2010

Playwright Steven Dietz was a tad too young to be sent off to the Vietnam War. Still, his fascination with Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was intense.

It was that interest in McNamara that propelled Dietz to write his play "Last of the Boys," which Beowulf Alley Theatre will preview tonight and open Saturday.