First Nighter: Rajiv Joseph's "Guards at the Taj" Shocks Admirably

A myth about the Taj Mahal goes that when it was completed as an Agra, India palace for Shah Jahan's wife--who didn't live to see it--the mogul had the hands of the 20,000 workmen cut off so they could never construct a building that might equal or surpass it in beauty. There seems to be no historical substantiation for the tall tale--or for the same claim about other sites from antiquity--but the story is so colorful in its macabre way that it continues to be told. Just at the moment it's a goo...