Futura

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A lecture on the history of typography is probably not what most people expect during a night out at the theater. And yet, Jordan Harrison's intriguing new drama Futura, presented by the National Asian American Theater Company at TBG Studios, begins with a rather lengthy speech on just that. Thankfully, as delivered by Mia Katigbak as Professor Lorraine Wexler, the lecture proves to be an insightful and entertaining one filled with juicy facts and told with dramatic flair.

There's also much more lurking just under the surface of the text than simply the distinction between serif and sans-serif fonts. The play is set in the near future, where print is not only dead -- it's been annihilated [...]