Lydia Diamond’s “Stick Fly” at Arena Stage is not aimed at any single target. It takes on race, sex, honesty, class, infidelity, wealth, self-respect and more. The result is a play that manages to be simultaneously funny and provocative, to have a primarily humorous exterior throughout, until its serious core is revealed at the end.

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