A Family Tries to Blend Despite Some Curdling
Charles IsherwoodSeptember 27, 2011: California dreams wither under a blazing sun in “Lemon Sky,” a 1970 drama by Lanford Wilson that has been affectionately revived by the Keen Company at the Harold Clurman Theater. Among the most autobiographical works by Mr. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who died earlier this year, this simultaneously wry and plaintive memory play explores a painful passage in the life of a 17-year-old Nebraska boy who is reunited with his estranged father for an uneasy late attempt at father-son bonding.
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