January's Theme: Family

As the holiday festivities dissipate into the bleak midwinter of January, I am thinking of family, a topic on everyone's mind this time of year after the presents have been unwrapped (and returned?), the wrapping (or gifts) discarded, and the trees left (or pitched with sticky sap fingers amidst curses) by the side of the road. This month's plays will all deal with that goofy, sometimes vexing but irreplaceable institution we all know and love (right?): our families.