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The backyard barbecue is a staple of fair weather, but conditions are not as favorable as you might think in Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer-nominated Detroit , which comes to Virginia Rep's TheatreGym through the Cadence Theatre Co. from May 1 to 24. Anna Senechal Johnson directs local stage veterans Larry Cook, Langdon Nagel, Bill Patton and Laine Satterfield, along with Richmond-stage newcomer Chris Lindsay-Abaire, wife of New York City playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who wrote Cadence's fall production, Good People . Johnson says that the play about an unlikely pairing of neighbors made her laugh out loud when she first read it. Yet there is also darkness, pertaining to the widening gap between the expectations of the working class and the social reality. Times vary. $10 to $28. 282-2620 or cadencetheatre.org .
