A critic for the Times says that "The Divine Sister" was one of the 10 best shows of the year, and a critic for the Post puts "The Liar" in his top 10.
I had rather a different take on them:
for the evening, we decided on "The Divine Sister" at the SoHo Playhouse; the show had received a good review in the Times and Times readers had given it 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. In fact the play was awful. Make that AWFUL! Fart jokes, for God's sake!
Esther and John and Mary Ellen and I saw "The Liar" at the Shakespeare Theater in May (tickets courtesy of Cassie and Roger). It was bad: A farce that wasn't funny, made worse by the fact that many in the audience guffawed every time they heard a rhyme. And since the play was in verse, there were lots of rhymes.
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