Once in a Lifetime

It's been a while since I took the time to read a play. Of the three Kaufman & Hart plays in this volume, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" is my favorite, in part because of the 1942 movie of the same name that starred Monty Woolley as Sheridan Whiteside and Bette Davis as Maggie Cutler. Definitely 5-sta......more

Our online play group read _The Man Who Came to Dinner_ and it's delightfully funny. I'm the only one of the four of us who has seen it performed (I was in stitches) but apparently there's a video with Nathan Lane in the the "Sherry" role on YT. I expect we'll do another play (maybe two!) from this......more

After reading the Moss Hart biography I wanted to see a sample of his collaboration of his work with George S. Kaufman so I got my hands on this collection. Now, there is about as much point to read a screenplay to get a feel of the movie as there is to read a play script to get a feel for the play.......more

The thing that stuck out to me about this play was that it was actually funny. The main reason I thought it was funny was because we actually watched the play in class. I never really gave plays a chance before, because it is different reading it that actually seeing it. When you can actually see it......more

Kaufman and Hart comedies are still a staple of regional theater, and reading these three plays (in some cases re-reading, in others enjoying them for the first time), it's easy to see why they don't go away. The screwball sensibilities of these plays are still fresh after all these years, in many w......more