Grim reality meets supernatural mystery in 'Pluto' at Forum Theatre

Early Monday afternoon, a rumor flickered across Twitter about a possible gunman on a Big Ten campus. The report was false, but for a moment it was terribly easy to believe it was all happening again. The same can't be said for "Pluto," an abrasively cagey new play that takes the grim American phenomenon of school shootings and wraps it in drama-school layers of whimsy and supernatural mystery. The setting is a suburban kitchen, where a mother tries to talk to her college-age son and where inapp...