"Coming up Shorts" Series B, the 95-minute program of one-acts that alternates with Series A in the 13th annual Summer Shorts Festival of New American Plays at 59E59 Theaters, is an improvement over its series partner, reviewed here yesterday. Just a small improvement, but one takes one’s pleasures where one finds them. And, like Series A, it's a single gem, coming at the end, that makes the trip to 59th Street worthwhile. (See Series A for design credits.) Blake DeLong, Christine Spang. All photos: Carol Rosegg. It kicks off with “Lucky,” by the highly reputed Sharr White (The True, The Other Place), a two-hander that reads much better than it plays in this production, tediously directed by J.J. Kandel, artistic director of the festival's producer, Throughline Artists. Set in a motel on the outskirts of a small American town in 1949, it dramatizes the reunion of a long absent, depressed, World War II veteran, Phil (Blake DeLong), and his wife, Meredith ...
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