CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, April 21, 2010

At City Theatre, 'Shooting Star' sparkles, then fizzles

Post gazette: With airplane travel now grounded by an Icelandic volcano -- obviously the invention of an absurdist playwright -- "Shooting Star" feels like a slice of current life.
That's what you expect from Steven Dietz, the fluent playwright whose work we've seen five times at City Theatre and a couple of times at other Pittsburgh companies. He's smart and contemporary to the extent that a theater critic wants to jot down his literate, snap crackling turns of phrase to dress up his review, except that while jotting one, another comes flying by, then another and another.

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