'The Balusters' Broadway Review: A New Play Covers Almost All the Diversity Bases

It would be interesting to see the chart of characters that David Lindsay-Abaire had to use to write his new play, "The Balusters," which opened Tuesday at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. By today's standards, its cast of 10 is large, but even then, while all three races are represented, a few ethnic groups, as well as a few letters of the ever-expanding LGBTQ+ minority, have been left out. In the play's sequel, Lindsay-Abaire might want to represent asexuals and members of the Inuit-Yupik-Aleuts community, formerly and controversially known as Eskimos. A Black woman (Anika Noni . . .