There are so many things wrong with Anthony Giardina's Dan Cody' Yacht that I don't even know where to begin. As soon as the play began, I couldn't help but think, "no, wait, I saw this play already." It exists in the same vein as Admissions , Joshua Harmon's better written play from last season. We're once again thrown into a prestigious Massachusetts suburban high school (this time a public one) with white parents worrying about their already-privileged children's future at college and beyond. We're immediately introduced, in an opening scene filled with so much exposition that the playwright should be embarrassed, to Kevin, a wealthy single, gay father (yeah, he's gay, just so we're clear that everything that follows does not happen because he wants to get into a woman's pants) who has a job in Finance and knows everything there is to know about Finance and making money and being successful. He knows because he wasn't ver...
Theater reviews and commentary by Alyssa Maher.