"Leave the gun," Jackie, the volatile, recovering-addict ex-con at the center of The Motherf**ker With the Hat, is told halfway through the play. "Take the empanadas." It's a throwaway line, but a sharp and clever one: exactly right for the moment; a riff on The Godfather, another work about New Yorkers on the edges of mainstream society, updated for today's Latin-inflected outer boroughs. It's emblematic of the shar…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:31PM on April 12, 2011