Moonchildren,” currently being revived at the Second Stage, is Michael Weller’s 1972 comedy about a sensitive young man trying to come to terms with himself and the world around him. Set in 1965, it concerns a group of bright, privileged college students—the sort who sit around the kitchen of their communal house worrying about Vietnam and the future, and wondering what they’ll do if any of them get called up. There’s Bob (a music major), Ruth (a philosophy major), and Norman (mathematics). Then there’s farsighted Dick (majoring in Far Eastern studies, because it’s the going thing), Kathy, Bob’s girlfriend, who Continue reading

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