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Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, as its name might suggest, is a local production company dedicated to new works of theatre. As such, the plays presented by PTW might sometimes seem a bit underdeveloped and in need of further workshopping before they're ready for the neon lights of Broadway. That's certainly the case with 50 West 50, PTW's current production. The show's plot, in a nutshell, loosely resembles the lyrics to J. Geils Band's classic "Love Stinks":...

The first trick to a successful production is having a really solid script. That should go without saying, but it's amazing how many bad scripts there are out there, being produced with less-than-successful results. Brian Golden's is, mercifully, exactly the opposite of that: a tight, clean, well-plotted script that moves along at a good pace and feels significantly shorter than its nearly 150-minute running time.

. I’ll wait.