‘True Blood’s’ Chris Bauer Stars in ‘America’: Review

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Dads are really taking it on the chin this season (see “The Heiress”), none more so than Hank, the mackintosh-wrapped sad-sack trying hard to connect with his estranged teenage daughter in “What Rhymes With America.”

Melissa James Gibson’s funny and engaging, if acrid, play at the Atlantic Theater Co. begins with Hank and daughter Marlene on either side of an invisible door.