TALES OF LOHR: SARA PORKALOB'S "DRAGON LADY" AT THE PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER

Thoughts on a one-woman theatrical family album; plus "Factory Roll Call" lets Chip fall where he may

Outside of the customarily stripped-down aesthetic confines of stand-up comedy, there is arguably no theatrical form more potentially elemental in its impact than the one-person show. A sole individual, declaiming alone to the rafters (or at least to the back row of folding chairs in a black-box seventy-seater), possesses a nascent ability to reach into…