'Six Characters' bridges reality and the stage world

TribLIVE: A half-dozen unexpected visitors barge into a stage rehearsal in a production of a 1921 Modernist play by Italian dramatist Luigi Pirandello.
It turns out the family is merely “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” which is both the title of the play and the reason for their disruption. They proceed to tell the original cast that the author of their play abandoned the work before it was completed.