Cary Gitter’s throwback intimate comedy, about an Orthodox Jew and their Italian-American neighbor, is variety of sweet and sort of clunky.
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Angie is single and italian-American; Seth is just a divorced Orthodox Jew. She lives in apartment 4C; he could be down the hallway in 4J. She’s a curator at a Chelsea gallery; he operates a shop that is knish the Lower East Side. She discovers motivation at the Metropolitan Museum; he translates an obscure writer that is yiddish enjoyable.
You’ve guessed it: we have been in a intimate comedy, “The Sabbath Girl, ” and its own protagonists are fated to be mated, as Cole Porter place it back 1957 (several things never change). But as it is popular onscreen, his play, at 59E59 Theaters, can’t escape the cliches and clunky setups that burden rom-com as much as they fuel it while it is refreshing to see the young writer Cary Gitter unabashedly dive into a genre as rare onstage.
Angie (Lauren Annunziata) and Seth (Jeremy Rishe) meet — adorable, obviously — as he asks her to make on their air-conditioner: It’s Friday night so that as an observant jew, he can’t do so himself. Continue reading “‘Sabbath Girl’ Review: A Meet-Cute with Art and Knishes. It takes a bit longer, but, they are each other’s person for them to realize.”