"Flex" Is One of The Summer Season's MVPs
It's 1998 and the five starting players for the Lady Train, the all-black girls basketball team in a small Arkansas town, aren't dirt poor or bougie rich. The problems they're dealing with aren't extraordinary either but the kinds of things familiar to teen girls everywhere. And those facts alone make Flex, currently running at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse theater, a standout because its playwright Candrice Jon…