One of the hottest tickets in New York this season is for a play about the controversial urban planner Robert Moses (1888–1981), whose incredibly ambitious infrastructure projects—highways, bridges, parks—transformed metropolitan New York in the mid-20th century. Straight Line Crazy, written by British playwright David Hare, and starring Ralph Fiennes in a spectacular performance as Moses, has sold out its run (through December 18) at the Shed in Manhattan. Editor in chief Cathleen McGuigan spoke with Hare about why he took on a quintessentially American figure for a play originally staged in London.