David Rabe's latest play might be called Good for Otto but after sitting through the interminable three hours, I can assure you that what might be good for Otto is bad for everyone else in the theater. I'll admit, I've groaned a time or two after hearing that a show is close to or over three hours long. I mean, the greatest words in the English language are "90 minutes, no intermission" but some of my favorite plays ( Angels in America, Jerusalem , August: Osage County ) are over 180 minutes. Would I like to be in and out and home before 10? Sure. But when the play is engaging and well-written, it doesn't matter. I'd sit through six hours of Jerusalem . The problem with Good for Otto is that it could be 90 minutes, and should be. Characters and passages could easily be cut and the play wouldn't suffer for it. The current incarnation of it on stage at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater tells me this play needed a bit more development, another worksh...
Theater reviews and commentary by Alyssa Maher.