★★☆☆☆ Of all of theater’s enduring comedies, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has stood the test of time remarkably well; Wilde’s wit all these hundred-plus years later is still legitimately funny and razor sharp. But it’s a mystery why Paul Gordon and Jay Gruska, co-writers of Being Earnest, a newish […]
ROAD TO NOWHERE: ROAD SHOW AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★☆☆☆ It’s not exactly a secret that Road Show isn’t a very good musical. The Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical has undergone reinvention after reinvention—and title change after title change—from its 1999 premiere as Wise Guys to its 2003 revision called Bounce. Road Show, in its final form (which runs at the Lyric Stage […]
