Two-character epistolary plays are well suited to the restrictive requirements of Zoom webcasting during the pandemic. Hence I admit to being surprised that it took so long for someone to revive “Dear Liar,” the 1957 play that Jerome Kilty chiseled out of the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Vicwardian actress who inscribed her name in posterity’s books by creating the role of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw’s “Pygmalion” at the improbable age of 49. Fortunately, Pennsylvania’s Bucks County Playhouse, one of my favorite regional companies, has obliged with a very satisfying benefit reading...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2020 20:26 UTC