Screaming, Buddy Layman (Rod Bagheri) is swept away in the water he has feared his whole life. The sound cuts out, replaced with only the gurgling of rushing water; the cast slows down, intensifying ...

"Thinking and preaching don't mix too well," notes one of the characters in Jim Leonard Jr.'s play "The Diviners." That thought is at the heart of this comedic tragedy, which is at City Stage in ...