The Mystery of Love & Sex

Bathsheba Doran’s The Mystery of Love & Sex features a pair of college-age lifelong friends (she white and Jewish; he black) and the girl’s parents; the drama concerns revelations about them and their relationships—their multiple relationships—over a five-year span. The Broadway production received significant acclaim, including a New York Times notice calling it “among the season’s finest so far” and saying it “is so packed with humanity that it seems infinitely larger, like a chart depicting the sexual and emotional anatomy of us all.” That’s a lot to live up to, and the Taper’s cast, including Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue) and Mae Whitman (Arrested Development) gets its crack as of Feb. 21 (running through March 20).