‘Zack’: Where Looks and Abilities Can Be Deceiving

This solid off-Broadway production of Harold Brighouse’s 1916 play reminds theatergoers to look into a person’s heart.

Virginia Cavender (Cassia Thompson), a young woman with money, takes a shine to socially inept Zack (Jordan Matthew Brown), in the Mint Theater Company's production of “Zack.” Todd Cerveris

NEW YORK—The old adage to never judge a book by its cover proves to be true in the Mint Theater Company’s resurrection of Harold Brighouse’s “Zack.” First staged in 1916, the work presents a comedic look at Edwardian era morality.