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Instances like Cousins’ drunken motherly advice highlight the many missed opportunities for dark humor throughout the show. The production’s sometimes-sluggish pace would have benefited from taking advantage of these wittier moments, rather than downplaying them to focus instead on Li’l Bit’s turbulent maturation. Still, director Tara L. Matkosky goes full throttle by the play’s final scenes, ending the show on a powerful, riveting note...
...title of show]” offers self-referentialism, off-color jokes, and hilariously naïve attempts at inner-city slang. But like a wittier "Will and Grace," its execution—endearingly realized in this iteration—is weighed down by sticking too closely to the book...
Sorry to trip you up like that. You’ve most likely already donned your favorite “YUCK FALE” t-shirt (because what could be wittier than almost swearing, but not?) and have already begun ritually burning a bulldog in effigy. But I don’t blame you for being confused. You see, this year, the two games are scheduled for the same weekend. One will take place tomorrow night, across the Charles River, and the other on Saturday, across the Massachusetts-Connecticut border...
...Dancing in the Dark," Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - I found a few surprises: the 1952 "Guess Who I Saw Today," a quietly devastating ballad of Cheever-like yearning and betrayal, and "Pack Up Your Sins," a Berlin number that was new to me, and wittier than the songs of his I know from this period (1922). Just reading some of the lyrics, you can feel the rhythm and the revelry: "Pack up your sins and go to the Devil in Hades. / You'll meet the the finest of gentlemen and the finest of ladies; / They...
...good short film, not a minute is wasted. Thanks to tight writing, shorts are often wittier than features. And because they don't have to make back a massive amount of money for investors, they're often grittier. It's hard to imagine this year's darkly original Sundance Jury Award winner, Everything Will Be OK, in which cult animator Don Hertzfeldt's signature stick-figure character, Bill, faces an existential crisis, coming out of the studios that deliver a new twist on celebrity-voiced animals every three months...