Solution to Evan Birnholz’s May 17 crossword, ‘Play Ball’

Did you expect a puzzle astir shot erstwhile you saw it was called “Play Ball”? Sorry to disappoint you, shot fans, but “play” refers to a signifier accumulation here. That’s a small spot of … wordplay, you mightiness say. Four theatrical plays are spelled successful ringing shapes successful the grid, arsenic good arsenic the playwrights who wrote them.