The Play's the Thing

By Millicent Lawton

Bret LaGree is not in Kansas anymore. In 18-year-old LaGree's home state, he could not have been the house guest here of playwright Alfred Uhry of "Driving Miss Daisy" fame.

And he could not be lounging now in the bowels of a Greenwich Village theater, so blas‚ that he doesn't even notice that stage and movie star Kevin Kline just sauntered through the room.

And, in neither Kansas nor Georgia--where LaGree moved for high school--could he be awaiting this evening's off-Broadway performance of a play he wrote...

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