Matthew Broderick returns to Broadway right now , while you'll have to wait til the fall for Laurie Metcalf . Some shows open well, others don't, and a production of the Tempest in Chicago earns raves. Rock of Ages opened on Broadway and was fun , if a bit silly. The Humana Arts Festival at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville got underway . The most interesting show (for me)? Actress Zoe Kazan's ( Three Sisters ) play Absalom . Didn't know she wrote. After a few missteps ( Adrift in Macao , anyone?) arch black comedian Christopher Durang is back in good graces with Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them at the Public. Meanwhile Brunch: The Musical , about struggling actors working as waiters on the Upper East Side sounds positively dreadful , both in concept and performance. Best line of the review? "These mostly unlikable characters want audiences to know that they hate 'crying kids, blue hairs and strollers,' as one waiter men