Kinetic Theater's 'The Father' is an 'exquisite jewel'

Pittsburgh Current: In the autobiography of actress Shelley Winters, she tells of introducing her parents to a man who’d been hanging around at a theater where she worked. The parents and the guy struck up a friendship and a few weeks later she asked her folks about him, and what he did for a living… she’d assumed he had been inside the theater just because it was warm. “Oh that Mr. Brecht,” her mother said, “he makes costume jewelry. He told us that back in Germany he made ‘jewels for poor people.’”