WRITER'S BLOCK
Woody Allen Writes and Directs for the Stage

On the one hand, this is a little disappointing. After all, you'd hope that directing in a new medium would tap something new in his artistry. On the other hand, that artistry is pretty considerable, so why kick up a fuss?

All of which is to say that connoisseurs of, and happy wallowers in, Allen's movies will be comforted by all the familiar signals emanating from the stage at the Atlantic Theater Company, where Writer's Block opened Thursday night. The projected title of each playlet, Riverside Drive and Old Saybrook, is in the white-on-black typeface that Allen always uses for his film credits.

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In other words, Writer's Block sits dead center in the Woody Allen universe, a New York City-centric place where beautiful young women are unaccountably attracted to much older men, and where relatively affluent people grapple comically and paranoiacally with serious questions of love and lust, artistic and financial achievement, and the possibility of happiness given the inevitability of death.

Well, I'd like to see it. Click here for review.

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