Reading Charles Isherwood's review of "Time Stands Still" is not like that. I have never seen this play about journalism and the complexities of a changing relationship that he describes, and I probably won't. Mr. Isherwood brings it to life so that I may watch vicariously as a journalist returns home wounded from Iraq to relearn her life. He passes judgment and lets me decide for myself with his breakdown of the characters and their relationships, his assessment of the writer, the description of how it is played, and how the play comes together onset.
Charles Isherwood is a Theatre Critic for the New York Times who also, apparently wrote a biography of porn star Joey Stefano called "Wonder Bread and Ecstasy: The Life and Death of joey Stefano".
My favorite element of the review is his summation:
Mr. Margulies’s quietly powerful drama illustrates just how much pain and trauma are involved in the everyday business of two people creating a life together, one that accommodates the mistakes of the past, the reality of the present and the changes that the future may bring.
When a review reflects its subject in such a way that the reader considers questions that might be invoked by experiencing the subject its self, I think that the review has succeeded.
Isherwood's review: "What's Really Fair in Love and War"
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