Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died yesterday. He was 88.

Even before reading the production notes, the title caught my attention. “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” (theatres) introduces a narrative of a dysfunctional family falling apart during a ...

The title’s a problem, but it would be a crying shame to let that discourage you from seeing “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” which is precisely the sort of intelligent, human-scale adult drama ...