Colleen Loiselle, 55, a Roman Catholic from Tyngsboro, Mass., said she prayed three rosaries inside the Loew's Boston Common theater.
In defiance of common theater wisdom, which maintains that a farce needs time for timing, a performance exactly two weeks later provided a new, all too real dimension to Mr. Frayn's invented nightmare.
Through Sept. 3 at four locations: Common Basis Theater, 750 Eighth Avenue, at 46th Street; the New Perspective Theater, 750 Eighth Avenue; the Pantheon Theater, 303 West 42nd Street; and Raw Space Studio L, 529 West 42nd Street.
Common Basis Theater, 750 Eighth Avenue, room 500, (646 554-6557, closing on Sunday.
You have a similar challenge with Bill Paxton on 'Big Love.' Because of my experience in TV I better knew how to make Superman have drive and passion," Television arguably has more in common with theater than movies.
Some critics and bloggers had "so what?" reactions to the live singing, noting that it is common in theater, while others felt that recorded tracks might have bolstered the vocal performances of Hugh Jackman (as the hero Jean Valjean and Russell Crowee (as the police official Javert).
In many ways it is that most common of theater stories — illustrating the struggles and sacrifices that hundreds, if not thousands, of aspiring performers make every year to get a new show, and a new career, off the ground in New York.
Mr. Cowan, indeed, is so physically right for the part that it seems doubly sad that he is let down in that common English theater boondoggle of the accent, his vocals certainly loud enough to honor Stanley's frequent brays but tending eccentrically to veer between Polish and the American South.
In fact, simulating ubiquitous computing user experience design has much in common with theater.
That playwright is Danny Mitarotondo of The Common Tongue theater company.
Both looked about 30, and both possessed the booming voices and extroverted personalities common to theater people.
