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The House of Blue Leaves: Review

6:30 PM PDT 4/25/2011 by David Rooney

Ben Stiller, Edie Falco and Jennifer Jason Leigh lead an ensemble cast in the David Cromer-directed play by John Guare.

NEW YORK – Ben Stiller and Edie Falco give affecting performances in The House of Blue Leaves, their characterizations freighted with a melancholy history of affection, friction and affliction. Their work is all the more admirable given the distancing nature of David Cromer’s unbalanced production, but John Guare’s play remains a strange and wonderful creation more than 40 years after it premiered.

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