An Unsteady Home In PARADISE SQUARE — REVIEW
And you know what? I enjoyed it. Moisés Kaufman sharply directs a fantastic cast way beyond what the thrown-together book provides. I suppose it’s appropriate that a show about a New York neighborhood that served as a joyous petri dish for the country’s many communities would have three different writers: Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan. The result is as tumultuous as the story itself
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