Off-Broadway Theater Review: If Only -- TOP PICK
Melissa Gilbert and Mark Kenneth Smaltz. Photo: Carol RoseggBy Lauren YargerIf only all plays could be so lyrical, eloquent and timely. . . Thomas Klingenstein's poignant new play If Only, getting a limited Off-Broadway run at the Cherry Lane Theatre through Sept. 17, imagines what race relations in our country might have been like had President Abraham Lincoln not been assassinated.Set 36 years after John …