Thieves

In this comedy based on a play by Herb Gardner, a zany, disparate couple tries to beat the odds and stay together. The man runs a posh private school and cannot see why his lover prefers teaching in the Lower East Side where they were raised. The two temporarily split, and each of them has an ...more

Thieves was written by (and based on a play by) Herb Gardner, a writer who can be enormously funny but whose characters and plots often feel contrived and artificial. In Thieves, that contrivance and artificiality are in full bloom, but the humor withers on the vine. There are some good moments, most of them resulting from quirky incidences involving minor characters, such as an eternally sleeping doorman who turns out to be dead; indeed, the supporting characters as a whole come of better than ...more