The School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan, and Right You Are by Luigi Pirandello. Whatever their age, these plays have the wine of life bottled in them. Settling down in a Broadway theater, the APA, the nation's most harmonious repertory troupe, deftly uncorks and pours out that life.
Right You Are is 48 years old, and there is scarcely a grey line in the script. It is a kind of intellectual and philosophical whodunit, aimed at discovering the truth of a situation. A government clerk (Sydney Walker), his wife and his mother-in-law (Helen Hayes) have recently arrived in an Italian town. Their...