Silverstein, Shel - Melanie Kirkpatrick (review date 12 December 1989)
Melanie Kirkpatrick (review date 12 December 1989)
SOURCE: Kirkpatrick, Melanie. “Hellish Evening at Lincoln Center.” Wall Street Journal (12 December 1989): A18.
[In the following review of the theatrical double-bill Oh, Hell, Kirkpatrick describes Silverstein's one-act play The Devil and Billy Markham as a witty one-man show in verse, performed as an extended country and western song.]
A flier Lincoln Center Theater recently sent out to its members included a note saying that Sen. Jesse Helms would not approve of Oh, Hell, the new double bill now playing at the Mitzi E. Newhouse. I don't know if this was meant as a come-on or deterrent, but I bet they're right. With its frequent obscenities, occasional scatology and inventive theology, Oh, Hell probably wouldn't be Sen. Helms's idea of a swell night on the town.
But there are better reasons not to like the show, especially David Mamet's Bobby...
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