LADYHOUSE BLUES by Kevin O'Morrison
Family plays rank among the finest and most durable achievements of the U.S. theater. Season after season, Long Day's Journey into Night, Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie are revived all over the globe.
Even a demonstrably lesser drama, such as Ladyhouse Blues at Manhattan's Theater of St. Peter's Church, shows the deep affinity linking the family with the emotions and experiences that fire up a stage. Within the familysometimes at scalding intensitywe get our first inklings of the nature of love, hate, time, memory, remorse and...