Here is my serious recommendation for your weekend entertainment. Get a babysitter and take your wife to "Half and Half" at the Victory Gardens theater:

http://www.victorygardens.org/default.asp?action=article&ID=212

Here is the synopsis:

Half of all marriages end in divorce. So half of all marriages continue, right? Maybe. In Half and Half, James Sherman explores marriages past and present. In the first act, at breakfast in 1970, the breadwinner husband reads the newspaper and the homemaker wife fries the eggs. In the second act, at breakfast taking place this morning, the career-minded wife reads the paper and the stay-at-home husband cooks the frittata. With his unique comic insight, Sherman looks at how husbands and wives accept and reject their roles, how their roles have changed, and how their roles just might be changing again.

Alright, so maybe that's a bit corny, maybe covering this in a two hour comedy is a bit superficial, maybe it's a bit heavy in stereotypes. But....it also has some messages that aren't heard very often, if at all. It's also funny.

I heard about it a while back on NPR, where two feminist media critics were bashing it.....because, golly, it was so offensive and incomprehensible that the (formerly 'traditional') now 'career-minded' wife still wasn't blissful and depended somewhat on her 'fritatta cooking' husband. But, this show really isn't about passing judgement on feminsim - it's about how people take on different roles and what comes with that. Too bad the NPR critics missed that.

Reading between the lines of the NPR review, I knew that I had to see it. We saw it last night.

Definitely worthwhile. This is the last weekend for the show.

HotTix (http://hottix.org/) usually has tickets for pretty cheap, or I suppose you can get them there. If you go, I'd be curious what you think....