Stiller Sings in ‘Leaves’; Arianda Steals ‘Yesterday’: Review

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Ben Stiller has a piquant family connection to John Guare’s fever dream comedy, “The House of Blue Leaves.”

His mother, Anne Meara, played a nun in the 1970 original production and later Stiller himself played Ronnie, the AWOL army recruit who has come home to Queens, New York to blow up the Pope -- to make a name for himself (how familiar a theme has that become?).