Appropriate at Mark Taper Forum

Winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, Appropriate deals with the hassles of inheritance as one estranged family descends upon a crumbling Arkansan plantation to liquidate their dead patriarch's estate. As the three adult children argue over clutter, debt and their troubled family history, a disturbing discovery among their father's possessions turns up the intensity at the already-uncomfortable reunion. Decades of family resentment burst through centuries of historical sin in this outrageous and entertaining family drama. A subversive take on a classic American genre, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate offers a bold, modern look at race and identity. Catch its West Coast premiere at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum.