Second Stage Theater began its current season with a play that didn't have a single part for an actress, Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play, but the company more than made up for any unintended slight by then handing Julie White the role of her career in Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed. And now Second Stage is helping to remind the world just how brilliant Debra Monk can be by presenting her in Paul Weitz's Show People.

Much like The Little Dog Laughed, Weitz's amusing if slight work will mostly appeal to people who love show business. (Talk about preaching to the choir!) You can tell the true aficionados from the rest of the audience by their laughter during an uproarious seco[...]