Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Jon Klein's 1996 dark comedy about a dysfunctional American family, opens tomorrow at the Vagabond Players.

The play's family is Dana Whipkey as a documentary filmmaker, Joan Weber as his corporate-consultant wife and Ashly Fishell as their disaffected teen-age daughter. Direction is by James Kinstle.

Playwright Klein's T-Bone N Weasel was produced at Center Stage in 1992; Dimly Perceived made its East Coast premiere at Washington's Arena Stage in 1998.

Show times at the Vagabonds, 806 S. Broadway, are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Feb. 2. The play runs through Feb. 9. Tickets are $12. For more information, call 410-563-9135.