People Be Heard

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Quincy Long's People Be Heard is billed as "a new comedy with songs," but not much about it is funny. On the contrary, it's a muddled, inept, and ultimately spineless play about members of a semi-rural community school board taking on the issue of creationism versus natural selection, as well as schoolyard sexual harassment. But the real question Long's "comedy" raises is: What's it doing on the schedule of a not-for-profit theater outfit that was once regarded as an important home for playwrights with something original to say and a fresh way of saying it?

There's nothing original or fresh in People Be Heard, which has the audacity to bring up the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play Inher[...]