Kyle Smith

“Art can shed light on our deepest sorrows and traumas, but these two brief plays are more like glib gestures in the direction of loss.”

“It's a highly entertaining if not particularly challenging evening at the theater made more than worthwhile by the punchy wit of the playwright, Lanford Wilson and the talents of the actors.”

“On stage, the actors are utterly undistinguished.”

“It’s unabashed Broadway glitz and hokum, as sweet as a Sprite.”

“She hardly seems worth anyone’s trouble, and I’m not sure the play does either.”

“The Pretty Woman story — essentially a Hollywood Boulevard My Fair Lady with Gordon Gekko subbing in for Henry Higgins — thrills women (who are the ones snapping up the tickets) even in such an aggressively mediocre format as this banal, insipid show.”

“The earnestness that takes over in the second act is a bit hard to take; let’s not oversell the importance of someone best known for her spangled bat wings and furry headdresses.”