Backstage: Youngsters breaking in with 'Appropriate'

Woolly Mammoth's "Appropriate" is anything but when you're thinking about material that's ­kosher for kids. The comic drama by native Washingtonian Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of those "big, estranged Southern family reunites after a tragedy, which of course leads to horrible revelations, airing of dirty family laundry and possibly more tragedy" plays and is set during a huge wave of cicadas. (Remember the cicadas, friends? Before the shutdown? Before the big "Homeland" plot twist? We were so...