Missing its mark with forced humor BY ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH
Don't trust a play with a Tourette syndrome joke.
Don't trust a play with a Tourette syndrome joke.
When Mark Schultz titled his play "Everything Will Be Different," he had no idea he was being prophetic.
If Lane and Broderick are going to be the best-buddy equivalent of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, shouldn't we wish them new bondings to explore in a theater that would probably support them…
"Karla" is a well-intentioned but ultimately uncompelling new play by Steve Earle, the Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter.
There are moments when Wasserstein appears to be trying to stuff too many issues into two hours. Better too many ideas, however, than the season's more indifferent fluffballs.
For all the hubris, there is a sensibility here, not to mention facility. But the show is gibberish.
The results are three deftly performed, technically meticulous, mildly amusing little sketches separated by two energy-sapping intermissions.
Stage veterans Diggs and McDaniel probe the intricacies of 'A Soldier's Play'
Sounds crazy, but tradition suits Rosie O'Donnell and Harvey Fierstein
The title is the most coherent idea in "A Woman of Will," the Amanda McBroom showcase that pretends to connect Shakespeare's women with the plight of a blocked menopausal lyricist in a hotel…
OK, so it isn't "Rent," but it doesn't pretend to be.
For reasons best left to the Freudians and the grief industry, mothers are getting killed off in the theater this week.
Ultimately, the drama is reduced to an extended soaper dilemma about euthanasia. When Hank says, "We're all waiting to make sense of the ending," we have the uneasy feeling that the playwrig…