For her regular Thursday review of regional theater, Midday's drama criticJ. Wynn Rousuck joins senior producer Rob Sivak in the studio with her take on American Hero, a dark comedy by Bess Wohl that's been getting its regional premiere at the RepStage Studio Theatre, on the campus of Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. Directed by Suzanne Beal, the play is set in a small subshop where three "sandwich artists" are trying to learn their new craft: a teenager, a single mom, and a dropout from the corporate banking world, all of whom are barely hanging on to the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.. When unexpected events shake things up in the subshop, they find themselves allied against the uncertainties and inequities of America's post-recession economy.
American Hero continues at the RepStage in Columbia,Maryland through Sunday, November 20.
