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...cast's spirited foolery inoculates the evening with laughter, and John Lithgow's pell-mell direction would probably secure a friendly salute from the dean of comic mayhem, George Abbott, now 88, who directed Boy Meets Girl the first time, 41 years...
Robert Chapman's stately production of Mary Stuart succeeds handsomely in conveying the queen's dual tragedy, thanks to outstanding performances by Sarah Jane Lithgow and Laura Bartell in the leading roles. Stalking about her jail cell, villifying her jailers and judges with regal outrage, Lithgow's Mary Stuart dominates the first half of the play, outclassing every male actor in the show. Her controlled brilliance is more than matched, however, by Bartell's flamboyant portrayal of her English counterpart. Harsh, demanding, sometimes petty in her violent jealousies, Bartell's Elizabeth presents a clear dramatic contrast to Lithgow's more...
Jonson's comedy, though, hardly ends in reconclliation--Subtle and his fancy-woman Dol Common are last seen vowing revenge against Face. Dol (Sarah Jane Lithgow) is particularly appealing in two scenes--at the very beginning, when she forces Face and Subtle to stop quarelling, and when she plays the role of fine ladies--like the potty sister of a baron or the Queen of Fairyland. Subtle (Philip Kilbourne) is craggy and lanky with high cheekbones and his facial mugging supplies an ironic commentary over and above the script. Face is short, dark, and particularly good when affecting the part...
...John Lithgow (Actor currently on Broadway...
...near-tragic character of Fidelia, in love with the hero Manly, yet forced to conceal her feelings and her sex, has the power to make or break the play. Sarah Jane Lithgow's sensitive portrayal draws out of a potentially melodramatic part all the tragic irony of this single pure character, as she follows her rough and faithless lover through a world in which she clearly has no part. There is nothing comic in the character of a woman who is forced, in the guise of a man, to woo another woman on behalf of the man she loves...