Scarlet," about a dysfunctional family, at the Ontological Theater at St . Marks Churchand "The Summer of the Swans," an adaptation of a young-adult novel by Betsy Byars and Ms. Jordan's second Theaterworks/USA production.
The theater company, a dysfunctional family that includes two clowns, Marco and Beppo, and Eleanora's leading man, Domenica, employs a variety of gambits to help Gabrielle in his furious rewriting, tiptoeing around his imperious egomania and the notion that he may have purposely written a dud so he could escape Rome to be with a secret paramour in Paris.
It's not surprising that Lancisi chose a black comedy about a dysfunctional family for his new theater's inaugural production.
RED BANK Count Basie Theater "Second City's Dysfunctional Holiday Revue," sketches, songs and improvised comedy.
K-ROCK DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY PICNIC 8, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, N.Y., (516) 221-1000.
Written by Merle Good, "The Preacher and the Shrink," at the Beckett Theater, shows early promise — dysfunctional families, after all, have forever been a ripe source of drama.
The doomed, the dead, the daring and the dysfunctional people the stage of Ensemble Studio Theater.
The play, Mr. Weitz's third with the Ensemble Studio Theater, is, Mr. Brantley wrote, "a comedy of loneliness, in which each dysfunctional family member is dysfunctional in his or her own isolating way".
As in others of his plays, O'Neill, who wrote nearly 70 works for the theater and won the Nobel Prize for Literature, scavenged amid the detritus of his dysfunctional family to create his characters.
