At the end of James Ijames’s whip-smart satire “TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever” (which you would be wise to race to see), we in the audience waited for what felt like minutes. But there was no bow from the actors, who had already left the stage. The pinch of courage it demands of us — audience participation, like change, is frequently unnerving — proves more than worth it. Set on a college campus in the contemporary American South, where a whitewashed sense of tradition drips with nostalgia for the antebellum past, “TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever” is not a romance by any stretch. Despite the title, it isn’t TJ’s story either, though he does tend to think everything is about him.

Source: New York Times February 16, 2020 19:18 UTC