Theater
July, 1975
Same Time, Next Year is a 25-year comic case of adultery. The affair, conducted once a year in the same motel, is funny, clever and touching, acted by its two-person cast, Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin, with impossible finesse and assurance (they are led through their stylish paces by director Gene Saks). When a Broadway comedy is smartly tooled (the contrivances never creak) and effortlessly performed, it seems breezy. New playwright Bernard Slade exercises a switch on The Fourposter. The di...
