Superpowers

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In What Every Woman Knows, J. M. Barrie incorporated an eventually famous line about charm: If a woman has it, she doesn't need anything else, and if she doesn't have it, nothing else helps. Plays, however, don't necessarily require charm. There's nothing charming about Long Day's Journey Into Night, for example, nor should there be. Occasionally, however, a play comes along that embraces charm. It casts an amiable spell and delights as it illuminates. Such a play is Jeremy Dobrish's Superpowers. It's deeply charming, which isn't at all to say that it's cloying or terminally whimsical or insubstantial.

That a play as entertaining and yet melancholic comes from Dobrish, who established the[...]