The Public Theater's production of the bracing urban drama Stop Kiss was my first exposure to the playwright Diana Son and the stage talents of actress Sandra Oh, and it remains a vivid memory seven-and-a-half years later.
Unfortunately, Satellites, the long-awaited re-teaming of the playwright and actress, is unlikely to stay with most theatergoers for seven-and-half minutes, despite the work of a top-notch cast.

In this clearly well-meaning and autobiographically-inspired work, Son has some very salient points to make about race, the importance of personal history, and the struggle to have it all; but she makes them too blatantly. Moreover, both the play and the production, under Michael [...]