Forever?” It is, of course a rhetorical question, and the audience leaves the theater fully aware that some queries are best left unanswered. If Ms. Rice is feeling any bitterness , it is nowhere in evidence. The gently Satie-inflected score is by the New York team of Michael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (lyrics), while Ms. Rice doubles as director and also author of the book. In a prefatory note in the program, Ms. Rice writes of her heart feeling “full to the brim, like the characters,” and there’s an innocence and sincerity to the piece that keep it from turning cloying. Think of “Romantics Anonymous” as a gleaming antidote to the purposefully murky abrasions of “The Secret Theatre,” from a playhouse that at the moment is shining very bright.

Source: New York Times November 30, 2017 10:07 UTC