'Coney' Is a Welcome Theatrical Tonic
Sometimes timing is everything, and after the battering New York has taken from Hurricane Sandy and an unseasonable early snowstorm, David Johnston’s lovingly sunny “Coney” is a welcome theatrical tonic. Though not everything in this quirky ode to life along the boardwalk and beach of Brooklyn’s fabled summertime mecca shines, the show, directed with sensitivity by Gary Shrader, casts an overa…