How to Pan a Play in 100 Words or Less: NYT’s Charles Isherwood Offers a Clinic

At the end of a recent review of the shows at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, recently ended at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Charles Isherwood of the New York Times offers this devastating assessment of one selection:

I have been casting about for something charitable to say about “All Hail Hurricane Gordo,” a comedy by Carly Mensch (still a playwriting fellow at Juilliard) about two kooky, emotionally stunted brothers (Matthew Dellapina and Patrick James Lynch); one kooky, emotionally stunted young woman (Tracee Chimo); and a refreshingly well-adjusted white rabbit (name unavailable).

Perhaps I’ll just say that I loved the rabbit, and leave it at that.

Ouch.