His Girl Friday
A mixed bag at the playhouse: a blazing performance by Douglas Sills as manic editor Walter Burns; another by Jenn Lyon as Hildy Johnson, reporter extraordinaire; some good ensemble work, and a spectacular set by Robert Brill (the press room of a Chicago courthouse) and Paul Tazewell's costumes. But John Guare's adaptation of the movie and the Hecht/MacArthur 1928 comedy reset the play to the eve of World War II, and a heaviness — of Panzer strikes and genocide — looms over a "screwball comedy" and loads it down. Sills does a a tour de force. The script wants to be one, too. it starts with a home run (the play and movie). But Guare tries to make it do so many things, like touching all the bases at once, it's a forced tour de force.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, June 30, 2013
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm & 7pm |
| Tuesdays, 7:30pm |
| Wednesdays, 7:30pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 2pm & 8pm |