Review of Stage Beauty (2004) by David Denby for The New Yorker — 22 Jun 2005
Second-rate bawdiness--that is, bawdiness without the wit of Boccaccio or Shakespeare or even Tom Stoppard--is more infantile than funny, and I’m not sure that the American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, who concocted this piece for the stage and then adapted it into a movie, is even second-rate.
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This review of Stage Beauty (2004) was written by David Denby and published by The New Yorker on 22 Jun 2005.
Stage Beauty has generally received positive reviews.
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