It's a focused, witty performance, completely confident in its comic timing and its characterisation.
So Mr. Grammer's graceful and witty performance really should not have been a surprise.
Mr Blair and his acolytes were stung last week by an effective and witty performance by William Hague in Parliament.
Unlike the movie, which added some spice to its fairytale plot, especially with a witty performance by Reese Witherspoon, the musical is all sugar and mush.
For all the patent absurdity of her character, Ms. Lahti gives a sharp-clawed and witty performance as the rapacious Sandra.
This isn't one of his major roles but he gines a typically assured and witty performance as President Coin's sly but kind-hearted chief advisor.
Aside from Chandler's baffled Harge, and a typically strong and witty performance from Sarah Paulson, as Carol's gay best friend, almost everything else fades from memory, including sequences with lawyers and a meagre subplot about Therese's ambitions as a photographer.
Hoffman, an American consumer of advanced technology and vast amounts of food, is too impatient; in the end, he's dependent on help from the brilliant but secretive head of Jordanian intelligence (the English actor Mark Strong, in a witty performance).
David Gordon's play with structure in two works with folding chairs ("Chair Intro 2000" and "Chair/two times" from 1975) received a witty performance from Ms. Aedo, Emmanuèle Phuon and Mr. Sabado.
Take This Waltz's practical wisdom about entropy in relationships and sense of resigned acceptance are leavened by an uncharacteristically active and talkative – and often very witty – performance from Williams.
Now she has given a miraculously relaxed and witty performance as a man-to-woman pre-op transsexual who, after long periods of hormone treatment, facial reconstruction and voice therapy, is tensely waiting for her therapist to sign off on crucial permission to have the final surgery performed on her (hated) penis.
