Lips Together, Teeth Apart. (Manhattan Theater Club; New York, New York)

From: National Review | Date: August 12, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

Lips Together, Teeth Apart

First-rate performances from Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, Anthony Heald, and Swoosie Kurtz have helped to make an audience favorite of Lips Together, Teeth Apart, by Terrence McNally (the author of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), at the Manhattan Theater Club, which has similarly extended its run indefinitely (with some cast changes). Two couples in their forties, linked by consanguinity, marriage, and infidelity, spend a weekend at a beach house one of them has inherited from her brother, recently dead of AIDS. Ostensibly, all is ...

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