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LITERARY NEWS

Here are some reviews on recent action from some of our clients:

Leslye Headland's play Bachelorette (running through August twenty-eighth at Second Stage Theatre Uptown, http://www.2st.com/component/option,com_plays/task,viewPlay/id,135) has been receiving excellent notices. Please find a selection of them below:

"[...] the hangover by proxy you may acquire is a fair price to pay for the satisfactions of this vivid and entertaining play, as witheringly funny as it is bitterly sad. The central characters in this Second Stage Theatre production, three postcollegiate young women and the two young men they pick up, are observed with equal parts savagery and sympathy. Endearing or pathetic one moment, reprehensible the next, they may be familiar: marginally more grown-up versions of the spoiled youngsters from any number of youth-aimed movies and television shows. But as written with stiletto-sharp wit by Ms. Headland, they are almost embarrassingly compelling, and expertly played by a cast of gifted actors under the pitch-perfect direction of Trip Cullman." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times (http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/theater/reviews/27bachelorette.htm)

"Look out, ladies, it's payback time. Think of the savage acts of betrayal that a clique of jealous girlfriends commit in Leslye Headland's viciously funny satire, "The Bachelorette," as the flip side of those nurturing bonds of female friendship celebrated in "Love, Loss, and What I Wore." [...] this girly slice-and-dice fest is [...] a riot."" - Marilyn Stasio, Variety (http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943231.html?categoryid=33&cs=1)

"[...] the talented young playwright displays a gift for incisive characterizations and sharp, comic dialogue. Nowhere is that clearer than in a hilariously detailed discourse on the sexual politics of oral sex. Under Trip Cullman's pitch-perfect direction, the performances are uniformly terrific. Chimo's particularly fine at depicting Regan's combination of bitchy venality and desperate, pill-popping vulnerability, while Thomas gets big laughs with his sly underplaying and Keenan-Bolger ("The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee") supplies the most realistic onstage vomiting since "God of Carnage." "Bachelorette" is one of a series of plays 29-year- old Headland's written about the seven deadly sins, this one concerning gluttony. If the rest are this good, I can't wait for the ones about lust and greed." - Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/from_the_mouths_of_babes_yEusjsT8xPqwYa4uuzNhwM)