Finishing Touches is a domestic comedy by Jean Kerr that examines a marriage entering a new and uncertain phase. As her eldest son prepares to leave for college, a middle-aged wife finds herself confronting doubts about whether the passion and connection in her own marriage have quietly faded over the years of raising a family. Kerr, known for her witty observations on suburban family life, uses the situation to explore fidelity, complacency, and the small resentments that accumulate in a long partnership, all filtered through her trademark sharp, conversational humor. The household is further stirred by grown or nearly grown children navigating their own romantic entanglements, adding generational contrast to the wife's midlife reckoning. Light in tone but genuinely probing, the play ultimately affirms the resilience of marriage even as it acknowledges its everyday strains. It offered community theater audiences an accessible, relatable comedy about the ordinary crises of family life.

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