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So things currently stand for Simon RichsAll In: Comedy About Love.
Bothered by the lack of indefinite article there?
Instead, its an expensive staged reading with a rotating cast of celebrities.
That, adjectives aside, is accurate.
To call the show directed by Alex Timbers feels generous.
Timbers, a regularMulaney collaborator, assembles what feels like a jazzed-upNew YorkerFestival panel with an intensely elder-millennial-baiting edge.
Despite the sus vibes, the production isnt without charm.
Not a banger), he also lands on several genuinely funny conceits.
(Or rather landed the stories arent new; they all come from his published collections.)
By far the strongest piece in the bunch, though, is The Big Nap.
I dont know where I am, and I forgot whats happening …
I also dont understand mirrors, she says, half flailing and half channeling Bette Davis.
), her eyes flutter vaguely as she purrs: I dont remember.
Sometimes things are just in my hand.
When faced with the climate apocalypse, Rich veers cliche and sentimental.
Better to stick with the Bogie and Bacall babies and the Park Slope pirates.
All Inis at the Hudson Theatre through February 16.
