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Playwright: Theresa Rebeck At: Online. Runs through: Aug. What Theresa Rebeck has written is nothing less than a morality fable, so pay attention. Haley Walker is a divorced single mom who fled her native Texas eight years earlier for New York City, where she discarded her accent and found work as a server in a swanky Manhattan eatery owned by a clan of Romanian mobsters. After rising to the powerful position of restaurant manager, she is now comfortable in her rent-controlled apartment with her teenage daughter attending private school and has decided that the time is right to start socializing again.

Before the internet and everyone having a device in their pockets, that was the way most of us casually absorbed images of desire and love. And yet, for decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affection. That left a great swath of humanity desperate to see something that resembled their lives. That was followed by Modern Family , the most popular TV show in the country for years.