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After a holiday weekend, it is natural to miss the family. But the family I'm missing now is named Apple and lives up the Hudson in Rhinebeck.
These are the six people I saw - probably for the last time - Friday night, the same ones with whom I recently spent three other intimate, deeply moving and satisfying evenings. They are the people whom audiences at the Public Theater have been fortunate to get to know in "The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country," an extraordinary four-play cycle that playwright/director Richard Nelson has set in the historic old town where he and his own family live.
The plays run between 90 minutes and two hours without a break. Each is...