Is there any job more weird than an actor’s? I’m not so sure that all the world’s a stage, actually. Actors are different from you and me. They pretend to be other people via a state of deliberate amnesia. It’s commonplace to say that actors must speak the lines as if for the first time. The ...

"Becky Shaw," which opened Thursday at off-Broadway's Second Stage, is a sharp social comedy of articulate anger laced with large helpings of angst and ambition. The perfect nourishment for theatergoers starved for a dramatic conflagration or two. The people in Gina Gionfriddo's rambunctious play about ...