Pocatello
"Maybe we just don't get to be happy," a despondent Tammy says toward the end of Samuel D. Hunter 's new play, Pocatello , now playing at Playwrights Horizons. It's a realization that hangs over the characters and just might find its way into your head, leaving you depressed as you walk out of the theatre and back into the rain, broken umbrella in hand. (Was that just me?) Hunter sets his play (directed by Davis McCallum ) in a foundering chain restaurant (akin to Olive Garden) in Pocatello, Idaho. Eddie ( T.R. Knight ) is the restaurant's manager, and he's struggling to connect with...anyone, really. There's his mother, Doris (an aloof Brenda Wehle ); his visiting brother and sister-in-law, Nick and Kelly ( Brian Hutchison and Crystal Finn , respectively); and his staff, Max ( Cameron Scoggins ), Isabelle ( Elvy Yost ) and Troy ( Danny Wolohan ). Trying to make a connection—any connection—with his own family, Eddie organizes "Famiglia Week...