Ruth has lived in over two dozen places in the last 15 years. It's not that she wants to keep moving around; it's just that limited funds and a succession of bad housing situations have conspired to keep her hopping from one place to the next. Or so we learn in Brooke Berman's delightful new play Hunting and Gathering, being presented by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, which wittily explores urban rootlessness and the search for connections, no matter how precarious.

Ruth (Keira Naughton) is a bright, 30-something woman, who keeps the majority of her stuff in storage. She moves the little that she needs with the help of her best friend Astor (Michael Chernus), who also happens to be the[...]