Directed by Karen Carpenter, "Pay the Writer" by best-selling novelist Tawni O'Dell is slick and superficial but entertaining and engrossing. The play about the 45 year friendship between an ultimately successful gay literary agent and an unknown African American novelist who becomes celebrated and wealthy plays like a novel or mini-series with its 13 scenes and many two-character encounters but is ultimately satisfy…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PM on August 24, 2023