Ah, Wilderness! is the lone comedy in Eugene O’Neill’s eye-gougingly tragic catalog. It works as a sort of photo-negative of his later, bleaker masterpiece A Long Day’s Journey into Night, with which it shares the setting of a “large small town” in early 20th century New England. Written in the early years of the Great Depression but set in the happier days of 1906, it’s a deliberately idyllic take on the sweet miseries of…

MONDAY Politics and Prose welcomes Ali Ansari, who will be discussing his book Confronting Iran. We’ve not read the book, but we’d hazard a guess that the strategies offered by the author get a good deal more nuanced than something along the lines of whining “We got to get them to stop doing this shit.” 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW., at 7 p.m. TUESDAY It’s not said often enough, but historical accounts of great naval battles…