Ironic congratulations to David Mamet for having written something perfect: His 1999
Boston Marriage, just getting its first New York City production, is perfectly pointless. In light of that cheerless news, readers are advised to peruse the following
paragraphs only if they want to waste some time, just as reviewers are doing in the line of duty and lay audiences are doing because they don't know what they're letting themselves in for. Or they may wish to read on to learn in more detail about how the actors Kate Burton, Martha Plimpton, and Arden Myrin are valorously committing themselves to roles that call for running the gamut of emotions from A to A-minus.

Mamet, whose Glengarry Glen R[...]