“They’re so convincing,” said the woman sitting somewhere behind me after the performance this past Friday night of “Kalamazoo” at Tipping Point Theatre in Northville.

Apparently, she hadn’t read the program.

You see, “Kalamazoo” is the story of a widow and a widower, both in their 70s, who sign up for an online matchmaking service at the behest of their kids. She’s Catholic and a bit old fashioned, he’s Jewish and open to a shiksha, and each is intrigued by the other’s profile. And so they arrange to meet. What follows, then, is a series of  scenes in which their budding relationship is explored – the ups, the downs, the fears, and the joys.

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