Read the full article by Dave Kempa at Sacramento News & Review
One might say that a rollicking romantic comedy is just what we need at the moment, and “Barefoot in the Park,” playing through Sunday, April 27 at Celebration Arts, provides just that.
This cavorting play — the 10th-longest running non-musical in Broadway history — has been defying the odds since its 1963 Biltmore Theatre opening with American acting icons Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley.
And while its original run spanned 1,530 performances to broad public appeal, the first production was lightly panned in a number of reviews. Variety whined that it had “a dime-a-dozen premise [and] virtually no plot,” and the Herald Tribune claimed it was “about nothing at all.”
In that regard, “Barefoot in the Park” is in good company. You might remember that the 1990s classic TV sitcom “Seinfeld” is commonly described in the same manner.