'Mercy & the Firefly' takes dysfunction to new heights

In a week that brings us "Next to Normal," the bar for dramatic family dysfunction is already set high. But Amy Hartman's "Mercy & the Firefly" clears that bar with ease, scaling heights of dysfunction you might not imagine. It's grim stuff. But "Mercy" counteracts that: first, in the sardonic humor with which Ms.

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