Not everyone loves being onstage, but those who do often love it so much that they make ideal subjects for comedy. Dressing up and pretending to be someone else while a houseful of people watch your every move is tricky enough, but in The Play That Goes Wrong, the performers must sustain theatrical artifice while their play crumbles around them. Every convention of theater is satirized, but one premise never flags: the commitment to the illusion. The laughter rarely subsides in the... Read this story
