The Homecoming

For a play that is 50 years old, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is as shocking and troubling today as it was when it premiered in London's West End in 1965. It dramatizes the human condition in a way that should make audiences uncomfortable. Janis Stevens directs the Capital Stage production of this play that helped define “Pinteresque” as an adjective in the theater-world lexicon. Pinter's play, enigmatic, misogynistic and filled with menace, also is a comedy—a really dark one, but still a comedy. W 7pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa, 2pm & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/31. $22-$38. Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org. J.C.