Theater: Close Relations

MORNING'S AT SEVEN by Paul Osborn

This is a tale of two houses and four sisters. The time is the early 1920s, and the place is Midwestern America. The houses, with their gables and gingerbread curlicues, are hopscotch close. In their backyards unfolds a human comedy that is warm, antic, wise and utterly endearing.

Three of the sisters are in their late 60s and one is 72. In the house on the left lives Ida Bolton (Nancy Marchand), and she has two problems. One is her husband Carl (Richard Hamilton), a man given to...

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