Alison Whittaker begins her one-woman show provocatively, telling folks in the audience how they would acquiesce, maybe even with a smile, if she stuck her hand up their private parts. That’s the funny and true opening of “Vital Signs: The Pulse of an American Nurse,” onstage at the Marsh in The City. Whittaker hilariously goes into graphic detail about “the Ps — pee, poop, puke, pus” — dominating daily life in the neurological unit of a major San Francisco hospital. Read More