Father and Daughter Edit Their Relationship
Charles IsherwoodDecember 19, 2011: The clunker title isn’t the only nonworking part in “Close Up Space,” a new play by Molly Smith Metzler that opened Monday night at City Center. Aside from the appealing work of a cast led by David Hyde Pierce, playing a more dour variation on the dithery persona he perfected in his years as a star of the sitcom “Frasier,” this wan comedy about (yawn) the troubled relationship between a book editor and his daughter has little to recommend it. Unfortunately it is the second dud in a row from Manhattan Theater Club at its Off Broadway space, after Zoe Kazan’s similarly undercooked “We Live Here.”
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