The American Plan and Leaves of Glassby Richard Seff
Lynne Meadow and her Manhattan Theatre Club have been extremely loyal to playwright Richard Greenberg, mounting play after play of his, regardless of their merit. No question, Greenberg is a fine writer, as witness his Take Me Out and his current adaptation of John O;Hara’s book to Pal Joey, but he’s delivered some clinkers too (The Violet Hour, The House in Town). His comedy A Naked Girl on the Appian Way served to offer roles that stretched Richard Thomas and Jill Clayburgh, but the play itself fell far short of its attempt to offer an incisive look into modern American family life, to promote the author’s theory that we must pursue and protect love wherever we may find it. [Read more...]
