Review: THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Loren Noveck
I went to Metropolitan Playhouse's production of The House of Mirth expecting to be educated as much as entertained, as often happens with rarely produced classics--in this case, a classic I hadn't even known existed: a stage adaptation of one of Edith Wharton's most popular novels, adapted by Wharton herself (with Clyde Fitch, a highly successful, if no longer terribly well-known, early-twentieth-century American …