If Andrea Martin ever offers you a plate of food, accept it and declare it the most delicious thing you have ever eaten—or prepare to be turned into dust by the deadly glare that will be fixed upon you.

In the first act of Talene Monahon’s exquisite, award-worthy play Meet the Cartozians, the Tony Award-winning Martin plays the Cartozian family’s formidable grandmother, who keeps a witheringly judgmental eye on all the unfolding events and intrigues within the Armenian American’s family home in Depression-era America.

If the title of this both very funny and very powerful 2nd Stage production (Signature Theatre, booking to Dec. 14) seems inferringly familiar, it’s deliberate. With a character very like Kim Kardashian appearing at its climax, the frisson of that family’s celebrity provid

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