NEW YORK — Artists sacrifice their families all the time. And although it sucks to be related to someone, especially a kid, who is using you in their work, or even as their work, the ageist media and cultural establishment generally sniff and stand by the precious artist’s truth.
Parents? Unavoidable collateral damage. Just look at last year’s Tony Award-winning musical, “A Strange Loop.” And that’s just one example.
But the cool thing about playwright Sharr White’s intriguing and rather haunting Broadway play “Pictures From Home,” which stars Nathan Lane, Zoë Wanamaker and Danny Burstein, is that it differs from every other play or musical I’ve seen of late in that it actually gives the family enough ammunition to fight back.
