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December 10, 2015

Far be it from me to suggest that the great David Mamet was looking over the shoulders of the great Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland when they composed their latest chef-d’oeuvre. Or that the respectable Messrs. Faizon and St. Geegland might have been eavesdropping on Mr. Mamet in rehearsal. But is it really just a coincidence that two brand-new plays from eminent American dramatists have arrived in New York within days of each other and just happen to feature septuagenarian men with agitated gray hair and mushy accents sputtering though one-way phone conversations? I mean, great minds and all that, but still. A week after Mr. Mamet’s “China Doll,” starring Al Pacino, opened on Broadway, Mr. Faizon and Mr. St. Geegland’s “Oh, Hello, Live! on (Off) Broadway” opened at the Cherry Lane Theater on Thursday night. Both plays are shtick-driven two-character shows that portray ambition-addled, desperate men in the autumns of their lives, and both are attracting hard-core cult audiences.

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