The Sound of Silence: Tribes Is Affecting, but Loses Its Rhythm, and The Lady From Dubuque Is Incomprehensible
'Tribes." (Photo by Gregory Costanzo) Watching Tribes, a new drama about a deaf son falling in love and finding his independence amid a close-knit, hyper-articulate, constantly arguing family, a theatergoer might experience the proceedings much the way Billy, that deaf son, often views his relatives: It's rambunctiously compelling and pleasantly intriguing, something you want to love"and yet it's ultimately diffi…