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New York City critic David Spencer reviews:

Camp season again, and it's not even summer...
Cry-Baby
Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Songs by Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum
Based on the film written and directed by John Waters
Directed by Mark Brokaw
Marquis Theatre

... but you can overdo sincerity too ...
A Catered Affair
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Music and Lyrics by John Bucchino
Directed by John Doyle
Starring Faith Prince, Tom Wopat, Harvey Fierstein
Walter Kerr Theatre

... define sincere ...
The Country Girl
by Clifford Odetts
Directed by Mike Nichols
Starring Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand
and Morgan Freeman
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

A comedy about insincerity ...
Boeing-Boeing
by Marc Carmoletti
Translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
Directed by Matthew Warchus
Starring Mark Rylance, Bradley Whitford
and Christine Baranski
Longacre Theatre

and

Sincere but equal?
Thurgood
by George Stevens
Directed by Leonard Foglia, Jr.
Starring Laurence Fishburne
Booth Theatre


San Francisco critic Judy Richter reviews:

In spite of that omnipresent fridge ...
Curse of the Starving Class
by Sam Shepard
Directed by Peter DuBois
American Conservatory Theater

finally:

Seattle critic Jerry Kraft reviews:

Profound but "as accessible as a child's fairy tale..."
The Conference of the Birds
by Jean-Claude Carriere and Peter Brook
Key City Public Theatre

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