by David Timberline
Playwright Paula Vogel premiered “And Baby Makes Seven” back in 1984, eight years before garnering widespread attention for “The Baltimore Waltz” and 14 years before winning the Pulitzer Prize for “How I Learned to Drive.” The play includes many Vogel hallmarks: a provocative premise, bold sexuality, and a slice of the absurd. But it also has many of the defects one would expect in an early work: a simplistic moral, sloppy characterization and a slice of self-indulgence.…[ Read more ]