Off-Broadway Review: “The Counter” at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Through Sunday, November 17, 2024)
Life secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machine” nearly every morning except Sunday. Paul and server Katie (a perceptive and secretive Susannah Flood) have exchanged what might be described as casual conversations for the past two…