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Lanford Wilson is a great playwright who is sometimes a little difficult to produce. There's a lot of depth and subtext to his plays that are challenging to capture. When a production nails Wilson's script, they really nail it. When they fail, the results can be embarrassingly dull. But more often than not, productions of Lanford Wilson plays fall somewhere in the middle. And, for better or worse, that's where the Simpatico Theatre Project's production of , well, falls.

As Jill mentioned, Fringe is officially over, but that didn't mean there wasn't time to fit one more show in; specifically When Boys Cry. Another work-in-progress (this time a study for a screenplay), When Boys Cry is billed as a "romantic comedy" - and although the play as I saw it (with part of Act II already removed, according to a sign in the lobby), I feel as though "romantic comedy" isn't a fair description. There is a love story in When Boys Cry - and the dialogue is funny, sometimes scathingly so. However, those two aspects of the play were incongruent enough so that they could have been in two separate shows.

(The Fabulous Theater Company) (No future performances).