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I Hate Hamlet Paul Rudnick’s 1991 comedy I Hate Hamlet revolves around a discontented TV actor named Andrew Rally who is visited by another tutelary spirit -- this time the ghost of John Barrymore. Perhaps best known these days as actress Drew Barrymore’s grandfather, between the two world wars John Barrymore was acclaimed as the Great Profile, a handsome matinee idol and movie star but also a noted wastrel.
Sylvia Greg finds Sylvia in the park and immediately takes a liking to her. He brings her back to the house he shares with Kate.
When Kate gets home, she reacts very negatively to Sylvia and wants her gone. They eventually decide that Sylvia will stay for a few days before they decide whether she can stay longer. Over the next few days, Greg spends more and more time with Sylvia, and less time at his job. Already dissatisfied with his job, he now has another reason to avoid work.
Tension increases between Greg and Kate, who still does not like Sylvia at all. Eventually, Greg becomes completely obsessed with Sylvia, and Kate fears their marriage is falling apart. Greg finally realizes what is happening, and decides to give Sylvia to another family.
At the last minute, Kate has a change of heart and decides that Sylvia can stay with them permanently. Greg and Kate resolve their differences, Greg finds a job he likes better, and they live happily ever after.
Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar & Grille A wonderful, off-beat variation on the saloon situation comedy/drama, the action of the play takes place in a run-down bar and grille in rural Pennsylvania. An unknown something is destroying much of the U.S. and various denizens of this working class bar are trying to decide what to do. Their choices of how to spend what they believe may be their last hours range from the ludicrous to the sublime. A wonderfully ghoulish fantasy in which the preposterous, but often affecting and almost always hilarious proceedings have been written with a zest for laughter and comic wit.
Barefoot in the Park A lawyer and his new bride return from their honeymoon and are moving into a new apartment. Once there, they find the place is bare of furniture, the paint job is wrong, the skylight leaks and wacky neighbors keep popping up.
Butterflies are Free Set in New York in the summer of '69, Don Baker, a blind boy, struggles to find his independence by moving away from his well-meaning but overbearing mother. Alone but happy in his new apartment, he meets Jill Tanner, a kooky free-spirited girl. Togethe |