The Play's the Thing

I am not going to mince words here so I'll just say it: Bobbie Clearly shouldn't be on stage at a major non-profit theater. Yet. I am sure Alex Lubischer is a very talented playwright but he's too young to have any kind of experience, theatrical, life, or otherwise. And that's evident with the script of Bobbie Clearly. I mean, I wrote plays when I was nineteen and twenty years old and I thought they were good but that doesn't mean they deserved big productions. And you know why? Because I was young. I didn't have the life experience to truly write a great play. Now, I don't begin to assume anything about Alex Lubischer but after seeing Bobbie Clearly , I can tell you that this play was not ready for a major off-Broadway production. Bobbie Clearly revolves around the titular character and the heinous crime he committed in a small Midwestern town ten years before the action of the play. The play unfolds with townspeople (Bobbie's co-workers, the victim...