The Open House

Th-Sa 8pm. Through 6/24. $12-$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org.
Rated 4.0

Janis Stevens directs an especially strong cast in Will Eno’s family drama about a dysfunctional family that disintegrates, literally disappears, and is seemingly reconstituted. Lew Rooker is frighteningly authentic as the mean, sarcastic, cruel patriarch. J.C.