'Modern Terrorism' Is a Comic Misfire at Second Stage
“The wounds are all surface.” So reads the stage direction that begins Act 2 of Jon Kern’s “Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them,” referring to the aimless American pothead whom three Arab terrorists take hostage at the Act 1 curtain when he discovers who the inhabitants of the apartment beneath his really are. It’s an apt description of this …