Portraits

It's Bernie Geldmann's birthday and all he wants is a new frame on the portrait of himself that hangs alongside that of founding partner Beau Maguire. Dysfunction reigns at the firm as the birthday party gives way to all-out farce in this absurdist play about a man who is so arrogant, so insecure, and so petty that, even in death, his law firm partner poses a threat to his outsized ego.

The original absurdists invented stories about vagabonds waiting in a barren landscape; or cripples living...