Barbara Eda-Young’s authorial restraint, and taut direction by Austin Pendleton keeps a story about a family on the Lower East Side touching but never saccharine.
“For the Love of Grace,” an attractive but lifeless Hallmark Channel movie, operates on the oversimplified premise that one traumatic event can destroy people and another can make them whole.
The three funniest words in “Three on a Couch” are JetBlue and Paula Abdul. And they are punch lines to two of the play’s rare straightforward pieces of humor.