"Critic's Choice" and Other Comedies: Break A Leg, Cantorial, and Critic's Choice

Ira Levin—the same author who terrified us with Rosemary's Baby and The Boys from Brazil also, astonishingly, wrote laugh-out-loud comedies. Here are three of his most side-splitting offerings, the pick of the litter—the critic's choice.

Critic's Choice

This comic fable of fictional theater critic Parker Ballantine is a giddy excursion to a lost era of cocktails, tuxedos, witty quips, and urbane ripostes that "crackle and throw out sparks" (New York Morning Telegraph).

Break A Leg

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