While Shakespeare was alive and for some decades after, he was simply one of several excellent Elizabethan playwrights.
At work she is desperate to make one last sale, and she thinks she has found a solid buyer in Charlie (the excellent Ken Marks, the playwright's husband), a motivational speaker who's eyeing one of the higher-end models but can't quite bring himself to sign on the dotted line.
February 28 2009 June 6 201010 In Christopher Hampton's excellent translation, the French playwright Yasmina Reza's dark and hilarious farce (elegantly directed by Matthew Warchus) has been relocated from Paris to the comfortable upper-middle-class environs of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
To be more precise, he has five bodies: those of Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Jeremy Olson and Victoria Roberts-Wierzbowski, who are credited in the program as helping to create the work (along with Mr. Neumann's excellent nonperforming collaborators, including the playwright Sibyl Kempson, who wrote the nuanced text).
Meanwhile, at Forest Fringe, playwright Chris Thorpe read an excellent half-hour short story and the Miniaturists staged several short plays.
MCC's "Small Engine Repair" ensemble at the Lucille Lortel Theater downtown, featuring the excellent Keegan Allen, James Badge Dale, James Ransone, and the playwright John Pollono, wouldn't be caught dead in those clothes.
Craig Lucas's article "The Disturbing Truths Told by Strindberg" [Oct. 7] was an excellent overview of the work of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
The Sunshine Boys (1975), Ross's first handling of source material by playwright Neil Simon, proved to be an excellent comic vehicle for George Burns and Walter Matthau, who played a pair of ancient vaudevillians coming out of retirement to make a television special.
Each cast member is excellent, with Foote (the daughter of the late playwright) as the amusing, well-intentioned Aunt Dolores in Blind Date.
