The lives of the privileged classes are often ripe material for ridicule and envy. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Good Boys and True, currently at Second Stage Theatre, exposes some of the goings on in and around an exclusive (and fictionalized) private school in the Washington D.C. area. But while the play raises some interesting issues with a certain degree of complexity, it also relies too much on a series of melodramatic revelations that are gracelessly incorporated into director Scott Ellis' uneven production.

In the play -- first seen last year in a distinctly different version at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre -- a homemade pornographic tape has been discovered at St. Joseph's Preparatory[...]