Over the years audiences have seen many sides of magnetic powerhouse Kara Young. There was Troubled Teen Kara in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven and All the Natalie Portmans. Ex-Con Single Mother Kara marked her Broadway debut in Clyde’s. And who could forget Panicky Southern Ingenue Kara in Purlie Victorious last year? But I was not prepared for the side served in Douglas Lyons’s restaurant-based Table 17: Sultry Heartbreaker Kara. Exuding sensual swagger from every pore of her pixyish frame, Young’s Jada is a complicated modern woman who wants what we all want: tender devotion, satisfying sex and loyalty. Finding all that on one menu—or in one man—is the challenge.

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Happily, the flavor blend that Lyons and director Zhailon Levingston cook up at MCC Theater is heaven on the taste buds. The........

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