Milk Like Sugar

In Kirsten Greenidge’s funny-sad coming-of-age tale, three high-school girls form a pact to get pregnant. This sympathetic but schematic critique of poverty-stricken teens who covet motherhood in a pathology borne of bad parenting, miseducation and malnutrition glows in a frisky staging by Rebecca Taichman with a fierce, appealing cast.—David Cote