Review: 'The Pain and the Itch' at Zephyr Theatre leaves bad taste
Bruce Norris, whose “Clybourne Park” won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for best play, has a merciless ear for the hypocrisies we all helplessly reveal with every remark. In his scabrous comedy “The Pain and the Itch” (2004), in a lively revival at Zephyr Theater, his portrait of a well-off, smugly liberal family on Thanksgiving grows ever darker as it develops.