Award-winning filmmaker Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening, currently playing the Atlantic Stage Two, features such fine actors as F. Murray Abraham, Jonathan Cake, J.R. Horne, Jordan Lage, Mark Linn-Baker, Elizabeth Marvel, Mary McCann, Del Pentecost, and Joey Slotnick. Yet, despite all the talent involved, this slight program of three unrelated one-acts is only mildly amusing.

The first playlet on the program, Waiting, centers upon a man named Nelson (Slotnick) who is stuck in a waiting room, whose only other occupant is a receptionist (McCann) who lays down the ground rules, tells him how long he's supposed to wait, and thereafter only types incessantly. After meeting with a succession of m[...]