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...BOYS IN THE BAND, an overtly homosexual play, contains both caustic comedy and humane drama; it leavens biting wit and cruel exposures with compassion. Robert Moore's precise staging and the "boys'" concise ensemble acting contribute to a neatly orchestrated production...
...than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal wit. Widow Popova's complaints about her dead husband ("What could a poor, weak woman do / But humor his caprices,/ When acts more suited to a zoo / Took place with neighbors' nieces?") are set to an oompah rhythm and sardonic melody. Though The Bear is no immortal work from...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is this season's winner of the Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Tony. From Shakespeare's clay, Tom Stoppard has fashioned two contemporary characters of existentialist angst, Beckettian apprehension and collegiate wit...
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit...
Meanwhile, Hunt officials explained to the Poonie team of four that, "any Harvard man with a quick wit" could locate the treasure in half an hour, all the clues being planted within minutes of each other...