Some of the most amusing live theater I've come across in the city doesn't actually happen in an auditorium.
It's an amiable, amusing evening of theater.
McNally has long since established that he's a funny and erudite guy, and the evidence is once again in plain view throughout vignettes chockablock with straight-forward or amusing history-of-theater references.
It's just one of several lowbrow American touches — including the use of a whoopee cushion in a Balinese folk tale — that makes "Adventures of the Puppet Princess," at the Looking Glass Theater, especially amusing to children under 10.
On Monday, Mr. Barron pulled out a fistful of ticket stubs, dozens of them from a variety of theaters, adding amusing stories about his experiences.
It's an amusing piece of dance-theater, full of satirical wit, and, best of all, it features two splendid performers: Ms. Noël, who is from Haiti and now lives in Mali, and Ms. Xaba, a South African.
Though it does not have to be more than an amusing evening of quick-paced theater, this "Irma Vep" is also a gripping melodramatic whodunit.
The man is clearly breathing — it's just another visual gag in this amusing production at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, directed by Don Stephenson.
Its object of adoration is Mr. Harnick, now 86, who joined her onstage and offered gentle, amusing reminiscences of his musical-theater career.
Saying that a television series depicts the English aristocracy on the brink of World War I and beyond is almost a disservice — the description sounds like yet another big Masterpiece Theater bore, or worse, an amusing one like "Downton Abbey".
