Like the weirdly statuesque family at the center of "The Talls," this terrific new play presented by Second Stage Uptown more than measures up. A coming-of-age comedy set in 1970 in Oakland Hills, Calif., Anna Kerrigan's story relies on familiar ingredients, including a brittle matriarch, and doesn't break much new ground.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:37PM on August 15, 2011