'Good People' at Walnut Street Theatre: Dramedy poses life's challenges
David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway hit play Good People, at Walnut Street Theatre, is about class. It is a sociological cliche that the American inclination is always to root for the underdog, which often means, as it does here, the unlucky, the uneducated, the unemployed. "Un" is the fact of life in "Southie," a thickly accented rough and tough neighborhood in Boston.