Playwright Paula Vogel's brother Carl, who died of AIDS in 1988 and whose story she related in her partly autobiographical 1992 play The Baltimore Waltz, is back on stage, one of the trio of characters in her latest work, Mother Play, opening tonight at Second Stage's Hayes Theater. This is a well-acted, if thinly plotted character study, coming in at a breezy 105 minutes. It stars three popular, multiple-award winni…
