Acting appealingly and singing wonderfully, she is quite a foil to Bo Skovhus's eminently Continental Danilo, who projects cool artifice from his chiseled good looks to his strong but monochromatic voice.
Acting appealingly and singing simply wonderfully, she is quite a foil to Bo Skovhus's eminently Continental Danilo, who projects cool artifice from his chiseled good looks to his strong but monochromatic voice.
The young people -- George (played by Brandon Malone), Agatha (Emilie Madison) and Wes (Ben Hersey) -- are appealingly acted and naturalistic.
(Isherwood) 'THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER' An appealingly acted revival of Leslie Lee's ambitious, sprawling domestic drama from 1975 about an African-American family.
(Brantley) 'THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER' An appealingly acted revival of Leslie Lee's ambitious, sprawling domestic drama from 1975 about an African-American family.
But the appealingly acted Naked Angels production that opened Wednesday night at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Sheryl Kaller, is an intellectual stealth bomb.
It's not "Mad Men," but the script by Ken Krauss has more wit to it than many Hallmark offerings, and the story is appealingly acted by a cast that includes Michelle Harrison as Harriet, an art director at the agency who becomes entangled with the fake adman and the real one.
Watching Ruben Santiago-Hudson's appealingly acted production, which opened last night at the Peter Norton Space, you can understand why "First Breeze" won an Obie Award for its Off Broadway incarnation and a Tony nomination for best play for its subsequent, brief Broadway run.
In the end, what's best about "Gilead" is the way Robinson's novel -- unlike some of her more polemical essays -- invitingly challenges its readers to entertain contradictory notions at once, and appealingly dramatizes the act of puzzling over charged questions, "trying to say what was true".
His hair was a bit shaggy, but appealingly so.
She's at her best in the second-act vignette where she and the appealingly vigorous Mosley momentarily break through to each other.
