Hand to God
Thank Thespis for producers (like Kevin McCollum ) who bring fearless plays like Robert Askins 's Hand to God to Broadway. After a celebrated run off-Broadway, Hand to God moves uptown, which is a good thing for savvy theatergoers. Taking place "nowish" in Texas, Hand to God looks in on Jason (Steven Boyer), an adolescent who recently lost his father. His mother, Margery ( Geneva Carr ), is channeling her grief into teaching puppet-making at the church, and Jason is a natural, creating his hand puppet, Tyrone. And then Tyrone gets a mind of his own. Toward the end of the play, Pastor Greg (the always welcome Marc Kudisch ) tells Jason that "every man has only one voice, and he has to learn how to use it." Indeed, that is, essentially, what Jason is learning to do throughout. Tyrone is id incarnate (sort of); he has no filter and seems possessed (there's talk of an exorcism). But in truth, Tyrone is saying the things Jason can't. Like tellin...