The title of Jamie Wellerstein’s best-selling debut novel sounds nauseatingly pretentious, but “Light Out of Darkness” happens to be a hat tip to Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” so all is forgiven. Regardless, his remarkable early success will put strain on his marriage to a would-be Broadway actress.
We know it will not last, because he walks out in the first scene. We will subsequently see how it all unraveled in Richard LaGravenese’s adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s Off-Broadway musical “The Last Five Years.”
Wellerstein is leaving, and it looks like he is never coming back. Cathy Hiatt is obviously devastated, but it gives her the first opportunity to show her range with the nakedly revealing feature spot “Still Hurting.” There is more to this story than first appears.
