The older I get and the more
reviews I write, the less I feel inclined to give negative ones that will even
inadvertently wound any of the participants, particularly the writers, because
I know how much of your soul gets poured into the creation of a script. This
philosophy is hardly a challenge to accommodate except for when you encounter a
play that doesn’t have substantial merit on any level. So perhaps the less said
about City Of… (by
Anton Dudley, directed by Stephen
Brackett, via the Playwrights
Realm at the Peter Jay Sharp
Theatre on Theatre Row, upstairs of
Playwrights Horizons) the better. It’s a little tone poem about the lives and
dreams of disparate American characters intersecting during a trip to Paris.
When I got home and my significant other asked what I’d seen and I told her the
title, she asked, “Is it a musical?” I replied, “No, it’s a pretensical.” Let’s
leave it at that.
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