A Well-Being Workout in ‘The Happiness Gym’

AMERICAN THEATRE: “Happiness is a noun, so we think it’s something we can own,” Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert once said. “But happiness is a place to visit, not a place to live.” That’s the place playwright Ken Weitzman wants to take audiences for The Happiness Gym, now in the midst of a National New Play Network rolling world premiere that began in April at Theatre Lab, the resident company of Florida Atlantic University, and next appears at Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theatre this fall.