Essays on Theater and the Arts

The hero of “Borderline,” Charles Graham (Cotter Smith), is one of those prosperous, successful young men, suddenly so common on the New York stage, who can’t figure out what’s wrong with their lives. A marketing executive with a sense that there is more to life than shampoo, Charles feels something lacking in his marriage to Susan (Susan Bruce), but doesn’t quite care enough to do anything about it. At the beginning of the play, he overhears a double murder being committed in the house next door and, on discovering that the killing may have been a crime of passion—a man Continue reading

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§2284 · April 25, 1988 · Off-Broadway, The New Yorker Archive · Comments Off on Stretch Marks · Tags: ,