George Costanza: Last News

politicizing of the queer community’s lack of moral decency, The Cottage, which opens at Broadway’s Hayes Theater on July 24, is having a great time with extramarital merriment, heavy drinking, and more cigarette smoking than even the Marlboro Man could endure.Playwright Sandy Rustin (whose stage adaptation of the film Clue is one of the most-produced plays in the U.S., according to her biography) delivers a period farce set in 1923 pastoral England and stars one of the early aughts’ most famous gay-for-pay actors, Eric McCormack.Jason Alexander, who played the famously neurotic George Costanza on Seinfeld for nine seasons, directs a seasoned cast that climbs an uphill battle to excavate witty banter from a predictable plot that rarely stays ahead of the audience.Sean Hayes takes on Golden Age Hollywood personality and pianist Oscar Levant in a new play by Doug Wright.Beau (McCormack) and Sylvia (Laura Bell Bundy) have stolen away to his mother’s summer cottage for their annual fling, leaving behind their spouses — a very pregnant Marjorie (Lilli Cooper) and Beau’s brother Clarke (SNL’s Alex Moffat).