Stuff Happens One is barely a third of the way into the new David Hare play about George W. Bush, Tony Blair and the buildup to war in Iraq, before the audience is jolted into an awareness that ...

Stuff Happens, the controversial British play about the lead-up to the Iraq war, is finally enjoying its American debut in Los Angeles.The David Hare play chronicles the tangled diplomatic ...

On one level, “Stuff Happens” (initially produced in London in 2004, but reworked for a 2006 run at New York’s Public Theatre) gives a detailed chronology of newsworthy events.

The dark comedy by David Hare chronicles the tangle of diplomatic maneuvers leading to the war. It hints that President Bush and top advisers intended to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11 attacks.