When she started a conversation, she said, it was because "it feels all right to make a new friend".
"Le Corbeau," on the other hand, is a hellbrew that has lost not a fraction of its flavor, and it feels all too pertinent to the age of trolls.
"I'll walk to the bathroom, walk downstairs, and it feels all right.
The group of men gathered around the narrative represent, it feels, all human response to calamity.
But in terms of the needs, desires and frustrations that facilitated his rise, it feels all too modern.
When everyone begins to run amok, it feels all the stranger because it is happening in our world.
For women, it feels, all at once, shockingly possible, suddenly mandatory, and unusually frustrating to speak up.
And it feels all the smaller because of the constant reminders of just how large a figure the departing mayor, Michael Bloomberg, both is and insists on being.
But in Yankee Stadium, the center continues to hold, and it feels all right because there is not a certified jerk among them.
(It feels all too appropriate that Michael Carnahan's impeccably detailed multiroom set seems to sprawl right off the stage.) Fortunately, the double portrait of Lucretia provided by Ms. Uggams and Ms. DaCosta remains sharp.
