🎭 The offstage comedy It’s Only a Play offers genuine laughs. | ✍️ Matt Simonette
I’m generally not a huge fan of material wherein creative folk in any discipline—theater, film, publishing, music—turn to their own profession for inspiration. If a movie is about filmmaking, or a novel is about a tortured novelist, or a singer crows about how hard life is on the road, I check out pretty quickly.
presents some hard-bitten folks ultimately questioning why they’ve masochistically ridden the show business roller coaster for so many years. The script too often falls back on name-dropping for comic effect, and sometimes it feels like none of the characters are edging toward a specific story beat, but Robert-Eric West’s direction makes up for it by keeping things going at a fast clip. Melinda “MJ” Deamon is a hoot as hot-mess actress Virginia Noyes. Danne W. Taylor as disgruntled critic Ira Drew and Valerie Gerlock as producer Julia Budder also stood out.
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