When you come across a role as rich as Nicola Fuller, the mother in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” and no one wants to make the movie, you may as well do it yourself. I imagine that was Embeth ...

Helen M. Hirsch, 92, died peacefully July 5, 2017, at St. Gabriel’s Community, Bismarck. Services were held July 12, at First Lutheran Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Christina Martin officiating.

The title’s a problem, but it would be a crying shame to let that discourage you from seeing “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” which is precisely the sort of intelligent, human-scale adult drama ...