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'Olive and the Bitter Herbs': Busch's latest doesn't fulfill potential by Joe Dziemianowicz

With its horseradish-harsh heroine and a goofy haunted mirror, Charles Busch's new play, "Olive and the Bitter Herbs," had the potential to be dizzy good fun. Or provocative. Or, better yet, both. Unfortunately, laughs and insights are equally in short supply in this forced and flimsy urban comedy, which opened Tuesday night. Busch's latest effort is haunted by specters of its own enduring memories of his better wor…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 9:15pm on August 16, 2011

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