For basketball aficionados, the all-time great players"LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and others on the deified short list of the NBA pantheon"are not mere mortals. They are supreme and transcendent beings. Inua Ellams's The Half-God of Rainfall, currently playing at New York Theatre Workshop in a co-production with American Repertory Theatre, affirms these mythic genealogies. In fact, his play, which h…
