‘Sweet and Sad’ staged reading is Nov. 22-23

Columbia Center for the Arts presents a staged reading of “Sweet and Sad,” by Richard Nelson, directed by Judie Hanel.

“Sweet and Sad” is, you might say, a dinner-table play. The play features three adult sisters, played by Brenda Hering, Irene Fields and Julie Jindal; one lawyer brother, now catering to Wall Street, played by Tom Burns; an aspiring actor reluctantly working as a waiter, played by Joe Garoutte; and Uncle Benjamin, played by Gary Young, an old actor who, following a heart attack has developed amnesia — which in a world that produced 9/11, is not an entirely bad thing.