Synopses & Reviews
Comedy
Characters: 3 male, 1 female
This play was the recipient of the Selma Melvoin Playwriting Award, given by Northlight Theatre in Chicago, IL. As Better Late opens, Julian (Nussbaum) isforced to move in with his ex-wife and her newhusband in order to recuperate from a suddenillness. With each passing day, the awkward situationspirals further and further out of control.As the laughter builds, the question becomes: how long will Julian have to stay? This bitinglyfunny December-December-Decemberromance is a not-to-be-missed new comedy.
Better Late is part a damn-it-all, Mel Brooks-likefeast of sardonic one-liners in denial, and parta sad and caustic plea for marital compassionthatcould have been penned by an octogenarianWoody Allen, guiltily regretting oneof his failed relationships. - Chicago Tribune.
A breezy entertainment on serious themes, Larry Gelbart's Better Lateexplores love, divorce, aging and death with amature sensibility and a decidedly mainstreamcomedic tone...always diverting and admirablyunsentimental. - Variety