Well the Missus and I trundled down to the South End Saturday to catch the Huntington Theatre Company production of Choice (through November 15) and say, it was . . . swellish.
The cast – especially Connie Ray and Madeline Wise – is terrific. The staging is entirely impressive. And the dialogue is generally smart and funny.
But here’s the -ish:
The play itself (by Winnie Holzman, whose writing credits include the hit musical Wicked and the smash TV series “My So-Called Life”) is kind of meh, a concept in search of an execution. It also – like so many other contemporary dramas – suffers from climax interruptus, a debilitating condition whose major symptom is a second act that leaves the audience largely unsatisfied.
Still worth seeing, though, at least to us.
Campaign Outsider 
What’s this John? You’re not commenting on CNBC’s marvelous performance at the recent RNC debate?
I had a few things to say here, Mudge: http://goo.gl/zrkqBv.
For the most part, though, I was too busy watching the Mets get blowtorched by the Royals to beat those dead horses at the debate.