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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Stage review: Twists in City's 'Seminar' lead to surprises amid satiric jabs

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The would-be writers come and go, prating of Yaddo and Inigo ... as Eliot might have written in an updated "Prufrock." And also of interiority and exteriority, the MacDowell Colony, plagiarism, canny career moves ... and who's doing what sexually to whom. The initial speaker is Douglas (Andy Bean). If you couldn't even hear what he's saying you'd still know from the visual clues that he's the most comically self-promoting young writer among the four 20- or 30-somethings gathered for a private writing seminar in Theresa Rebeck's wonderfully sharp, funny new comedy, which debuted on Broadway last year and now is at City Theatre.

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