From left: Petey McGee and Ugo Chukwu in "Primary Trust" at the Mark Taper Forum (Photo by Jeff Lorch) Eboni Booth’s 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Primary Trust” has good intentions. Its 38-year-old protagonist has suffered lifelong anxiety compounded by childhood trauma, making him immediately sympathetic and a poster child for today’s heightened focus on mental health. Yet the play itself suffers from a sense of incompleteness and disproportion, often relying on telling

Three men telling a family story spanning three generations over the course of three hours and two intermissions doesn’t sound like a...