"First, let's get this caveat out of the way: Nothing beats a stage performance of a Shakespeare play if the cast is first-rate and the direction insightful," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
"First, let's get this caveat out of the way: Nothing beats a stage performance of a Shakespeare play if the cast is first-rate and the direction insightful," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
First, let's get this caveat out of the way: Nothing beats a stage performance of a Shakespeare play if the cast is first-rate and the direction insightful.
And at the Irish Rep, "The Country Boy" is enhanced by a first-rate cast, the smooth direction of Charlotte Moore and the transporting set design by David Raphel.
Acted to the hilt by a first-rate company under the direction of Peter DuBois, this tirelessly ribald comedy will tickle, offend or simply bore in measures that will vary according to your taste for blatantly vulgar sexual comedy (2 30).
All of the technical aspects of the movie are first-rate and Nowrasteh's direction is controlled and freeing.
The first-rate ensemble, under the taut direction of Neil Pepe, brings an organic rock-style rhythm and energy to the play's cadenced web of images.
The whole production, under Joe Mantello's direction, is first-rate, from its expert supporting cast (especially Lewis J. Stadlen as Mizlansky's "tasteful" partner) to Santo Loquasto's dead-on sets, which mix lurid tackiness with clinical anonymity (2 10).
Though in all other respects, he pronounces Enron to be a rare five-star hit, tossing out auxiliary plaudits for the show's direction ("immaculate"), acting ("first-rate"), choreography ("whirling"), design (also "whirling"), ushering, air conditioning, seat cushioning and half-time ice creams too, probably.
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