Milwaukee-based theater artist Marcella Kearns comes from a proud Polish family. She remembers well what her maternal grandmother used to tell her, either while frying pierogi or rooting for the fall of the Iron Curtain:
“It takes a Pole to hold up the American flag.”
Now, Kearns is directing a play about a Polish immigrant woman trying to make a life for herself in New Jersey. Forward Theater opens “Ironbound” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok in the Overture Center Playhouse on Jan. 29, running through Feb. 15…