"Shows for Days" is Just a Passing Fancy
Shows for Days is Douglas Carter Beane's paean to the power of theater to change lives. But theater is most powerful when a playwright transforms his personal experience into a story that tells each person seeing it something about themselves and Beane's shaggy-dog coming-of-age tale, now playing at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater through Aug. 23, falls far short of that. It tells the story of the scrappy …