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In Wallace Shawn's new play, the unsettling intensity of marriage lies right under the surface.
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This week in Newly Reviewed, Seph Rodney covers Deborah Roberts's collages, Ursula von Rydingsvard's wood outcroppings and Noel W Anderson's superstars.
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Director Federico Bellone's take on the 1987 film will play the purpose-built Capital Theatre.
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The couples finally get on the same page at the last possible minute, making for overly dramatic altar moments.
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For Lucille Ball completists, the release of Life with Lucy (1986), her ill-fated final sitcom, is most welcome. I Love Lucy/The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1951-60), The Lucy Show (1962-68), and Here's Lucy (1968-74) kept her on the network airwaves nearly constantly for a quarter of a century, but her return to theatrical features with Mame (1974) flopped badly, with Ball singled out for atypically harsh reviews. After that she did annual television specials for a few years, and was a frequent presenter at award shows. In November 1985 she starred in The Stone Pillow, a TV-movie in which she played an elderly homeless woman, and while that program received mixed reviews it did well enough in the ratings to prompt Ball and her (second) husband, comedian-producer Gary Morton, to dip into the sitcom well that had served her so reliably well and for so long....Read the entire review
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