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Theres a lot of fretting these days over whether theater audiences understand the assignment.
Meanwhile, a handful of Off Broadway productions have been taking the opposite tack.
Laugh openly … Lyons writes.
When the characters ask you for advice, dont be shy, talk to em.
But all thats in the past.
We begin in the present, at the eponymous table.
Here, Jada and Dallas are meeting noton a date, that much is clear.
Just to … catch up.
hollers Youngs Jada at the top of the show.
When the queen tells you to answer, you answer.
knows how that call-and-response goes.
I wont soon forget the middle-age man directly behind me who shouted, That was embarrassing!
at top volume at a crucial moment when Eisen-Martins Dallas really put his foot in it.
Youre not wrong, sir.
she announced in a barkers bellow, is an underestimated ingredient of seriousness!
Table 17is at MCC Theater through September 29.
