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A Strong Cast, But Not Enough Laughs ‘At This Evening’s Performance’

By Pat Launer “Comparisons are odorous,” Shakespeare’s malaprop-spewing Dogberry famously declaimed. Comparing Nagle Jackson’s 1978 trifle, “At This Evening’s Performance,” to Michael Frayn’s hilarious and brilliant “Noises Off” (as occurred in some promotional material) is both odorous and odious. (For the record, Frayn’s farce premiered after Jackson’s, in 1982, but he wrote an earlier, one-act […]