Last Chance

“Wishing Well”: Inordinate audience regard accompanies Jon Klein’s new comedy, now deluging Burbank’s Victory Theatre Center with laughter. The story of mother-daughter revelations during one stormy weekend in North Carolina is a superior populist construct of considerable hilarity. Though Klein’s hybrid of social comment and howling one-liners can cloy, here he is atop his game. The plot is engrossing, its comedy emerging from the characters’ regional viewpoints in a manner combining John Guare and Beth Henley. The terrific cast draws its surefire zingers from a wellspring of character truth.

-- David C. Nichols

Ends Sunday at the Victory Theatre Center, 3326 W. Victory Blvd., Burbank. (818) 841-5421.