By David Sheward April 1, 2026: Two new Broadway plays are set in the last decades of the 20th century and based on real events. Both are startlingly relevant, foretelling fissures and fractious issues in our current era. Stephen Aldy Guirgis's adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon, based on the cult-hit 1975 film about a botched bank robbery, exposes the sharp divide between those in and out of power. Mark Rosenblatt's G…