#1 At the Wedding – Harbinger Theater at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
Bryna Turner’s At the Wedding was the rare production that managed to be laugh-out-loud funny and quietly devastating in the same breath. This staging succeeded because it trusted its audience. Never softening the ache at its core, never undercutting the humor with sentimentality. Anchored by a luminous central performance, the show captured the strange limbo of heartbreak with surgical precision.
What struck me most was how casual its emotional honesty felt. This wasn’t a story about explaining pain, however, it was about living inside it. The production’s restraint, its confidence in silence and subtext, made it unforgettable…