"The Melville Boys," Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA

Based on past productions, the Little Fish Theatre appears to have been custom made to feature plays set in cabins. Cozy, rustic (viz. pomp-less), and, for the audience (lucky us), accessible. Norman Foster's "The Melville Boys," directed by Paul Vander Roest, is no exception. The production's perfectly paced. It begins frat kegger funny and then, almost in a whisper, becomes sad as hell. It ends neither maudlin nor tragic. Instead, to Vander Roest's credit, it glows with a gentle humanity: all ...