![]() (The play’s title derives from Taylor’s study of the common housefly, although the metaphor involved doesn’t really get airborne.) Diamond’s play, set in an imposing manse on Martha’s Vineyard over a few fractious summer days.įirst to arrive are Kent (Dulé Hill), the younger son who is soon to be a first-time novelist, and his fiancée, Taylor (Tracie Thoms), an entomologist who has not yet met any of the family and is instantly overawed by the air of casual wealth on display. Pointed discussions of race and class erupt as often as testy personality clashes in Ms. ![]() Diamond, supplies enough simmering conflict, steamy romance and gasp-worthy revelations to satisfy just about anyone suffering withdrawal symptoms from the merciless soap slaughter that’s taken place over the last couple of years.Īnd yet this overstuffed but lively comedy-drama, which opened on Thursday night at the Cort Theater, also signifies a departure for Broadway in its depiction of generational conflict and sexual sparks among a well-to-do contemporary African-American family and friends. “Stick Fly,” a juicy family drama by Lydia R. Where to go for a sustaining dose of torrid, troubled romances and the occasional heated catfight? The daytime soaps are being bug-zapped from the networks one by one, disappearing into oblivion after decades of reliably dishing out startling coincidences and staggering secrets.
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