Jimmy Smits (left) plays the recovery sponsor of Jackie (John Ortiz) in "The Mother------ With the Hat" at Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater.
The partially unprintable title of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Mother------ with the Hat” is an easy attention-getter. But it is not nearly as graphic, profane, angry or scatologically imaginative as many of the other obscenity-laced linguistic turns in his surprisingly heartfelt if not always believable …