We unfortunately aren't so far away from the world depicted in John C. Russell's play, first produced in 1991, about closeted kids making sense of themselves in one of the most oppressively heteronormative environments possible: high school. The titular stupid kids are Patti Smith-obsessed nascent lesbian Kimberly (Jessica Hillenbrand) and Neechee (Phillip Berns), who are extremely close in the way that kids who don't fit into the high school pecking order have to be, as a matter of survival, and Berns and Hillenbrand's chemistry is one of the high points of the play—any scene featuring just the two of them elevates the material. MEGAN BURBANK