Word: playgoers
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...only meaning of the musical is revealed in this opening scene and thereafter reiterated. Guido has been a lady-killer whose prey have turned on him and become his predators. The more devastating revelation follows: the playgoer could not care less about Guide's creative block, or the key women in his life...
...show, and in this respect director John Gersten has succeeded. Ventroux's gradually increasing horror towards his wife's indecencies is well-executed, although a bit hasty towards the end. Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude breezes through its fifty-minute playing time and makes, as one playgoer put it. "A great way to start the evening...
...gravitational centerpieces of its new full-length U.S. dramas, the festival offers adaptations of The Grapes of Wrath and The Informer. This rather dubiously stretches the word new and, in the present instance, has the disconcertingly anti-theatrical effect of making a playgoer wish that he or she were reading the novels or seeing the films. And two sessions totaling 18 monologues are at least one too many...
...tamers of the theater. Katharine Hepburn may not be talking good sense in West Side Waltz, but when she puts her incandescent ardor behind any given sentence, you'd better believe it. Lauren Bacall is no great shakes as a dancer or singer, but when she fixes a playgoer with those tigress eyes, cool judgment succumbs to shimmering illusion...
Katharine Hepburn is one of the few actresses in America who seem born to the blood royal. When she steps on a stage, she rules by divine right. The theater becomes a throne room, the playgoer a loyal subject. Her imperious gaze, manner and gestures command the bent knee and the silent gasp...