Mule Bone | To Hate or Not to Hate
Weales reviews a 1991 production of Mule
Bone, the play’s first in sixty years. The critic finds
the play a ‘‘slight tall tale’’ that is ‘‘buoyed by its
tremendous sense of fun.’’
For years, the phrase ‘‘Broadway play’’ has been a favorite pejorative in critical circles—academic ones, particularly. It was familiar even when works like Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire were Broadway hits, but no one ever knew precisely what it meant. Commercial? Predictable? Unlikely to disturb the patrons? Any or all of those, I suppose, but Broadway has never been quite the pigeonhole that play sorters have imagined it to be. There have always been...
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