2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival sets the stage for rebellion

Rebellious characters are flouting the rules at the 2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, W.Va.Now celebrating its 25th season, the prominent annual showcase for recently minted plays is presenting five works that deal with small groups of renegades bucking the status quo. The scripts are not terribly satisfying, mostly falling onto the spectrum that connects the flawed-but-interesting with the sleek-but-unremarkable. Still, as is invariably the case at this festival, the...