2nd Story’s enjoyable State of the Union
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 21, 2007
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Short ’n’ sweet, Laugh to keep from crying, The circle game, More 
- Short ’n’ sweet
2nd Story Theatre has kicked off its Short Attention Span Theatre with Wave : seven short plays, no waiting; all but one a comedy, so not much time to rest your grin.
- Laugh to keep from crying
Rarely did a play arrive with better timing than You Can't Take It With You , the joyfully optimistic paean to the American spirit that earned its Pulitzer in 1936, when the country was licking the wounds of collective Depression.
- The circle game
It’s a very funny reminder that laughter can make such absurdity almost worthwhile.
- Seeing Red
Theatergoers just like to have fun. If you agree with that statement, or at least don’t sputter, you might enjoy 2nd Story Theater’s take on Charles Busch’s Red Scare on Sunset .
- High-flying farce
Forced farce is worse than no farce at all, even when you need some badly.
- Slices of strife
Once more, with feeling.
- Hot and bothered
Shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater and you get one response. Shout “Die Hose!” (women’s undies) in a German theater back in 1911 and you got another kind of uproar.
- The Front Page
The Front Page 's timeless fun at 2nd Story
- Summer stock
The 2nd Story troupe roasts all of the chestnuts here in fine style, clichéd characters deliciously recognizable.
- And the beat goes on
All Phillipe + Jorge can say after Tuesday’s presidential primary is that we are overjoyed the Patriots resigned Randy Moss.
- A boy’s life
Adaptations of the character-packed novels of Charles Dickens should be all the rage in post-MTV theater.
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, U.S. Republican Party, Harry S. Truman, Tom Roberts, More
, U.S. Republican Party, Harry S. Truman, Tom Roberts, Thomas Dewey, Tristan Jeffers, Paula Faber, Walter Cotter, Ron Cesario, Candis Dixon, Margaret Melozzi, Less