Delia Ephron’s play starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher wants to be a moving romantic comedy, but it’s sluggish and awkward.
There is no doubt as to what the new play “Left on Tenth,” which opened at the James Earl Jones Theatre Wednesday night, wants to be: A romantic, funny and harrowing tale of a woman’s rebirth.
I felt bad — awful, really — that I disliked the dramedy about this real person’s heartbreak, illness and eventual triumph as much as I did. But the mangled tone, laughless jokes and emotional fakery are impossible to look beyond. Their sweet back-and-forth — Margulies, a genial actress, and Gallagher sit at his and her desks for quite a while — turns into a long-distance relationship.
The structure of the chemotherapy scenes — montages of worsening and improvement — is wonky. The audience should be crying buckets while Delia and Peter suffer, but I’ve had more affecting train commutes.
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