Art in a Changed America

New York playwright Stephanie Fleischmann at home. Shaken by the attacks, she walked around the city collecting images for a play about New York that she had been writing before Sept. 11. (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times )

“Every pain has a geography,” says composer Osvaldo Golijov, who stopped work on a piece about Jerusalem and began one that draws on American influences. (JEFF ZELEVANSKY / For The Times)