McDonald has one of the biggest, most generous stage personalities on this side of Yo-Yo Ma – and a voice so warm and lush with the most measured vibrato that even memories of her singing make me swoon.

If you enjoy theatre that is ripe with female energy, “Miss Reardon” is right up your alley, with at least five different types of female crazy.

Any writer will love this character, whose identity and hopes for the future are embedded in verb tenses and for whom the transitive is blasphemous.

I wish Goat Rodeo was around in 1999, because something this huge was needed to say goodbye to the old millennium, while looking forward to the new.

Just when I thought the play was going nowhere fast comes the crisp, beautifully constructed second act. To use an oft-overused expression, there are, indeed, revelations.

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Walsh’s Winnie is so darn likeable that we don’t feel as if we're trapped in a bad lit class about post-modernism. Silence may be pouring into the play like water into a sinking ship, but we want to remain in the moment, stuck with Winnie, because that’s the best of all possible outcomes.

Buried Child won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.

Yes, but what does it all mean?

I’m hard pressed to think of any contemporary equivalent to these big, all male dance numbers; everything else seems too precious, too ironic, or too campy.