Unruly audience members, cast members behaving badly, and big-shot producers in the house on opening night. While these things might sound like an actor's nightmare, they're also the key ingredients in the often delightful new backstage comedy Love Child, written and performed by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton at 59E59 Theaters as a Primary Stages production.

The show, directed by Carl Forsman, begins with a slow build and gradually picks up the pace until Jenkins and Stanton are literally running around the stage, morphing from character to character at break-neck speed. The play tells the story of Joel (Jenkins), who is putting up a modern version of Euripides' tragedy Ion, entitled L[...]