Actor Alert! New Times second string critic has delusions of Uta.

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Posted: 12/12/03 at 9:39pm

Ms Margo Jeffersons assessment of the brilliant Laura Esterman's performance as the divine Sarah in "Duet": "Great artifice requires great craft and its own kind of honesty. Ms. Esterman offered a flurry of tricks and manners that hovered between vanity and anxiety."
If Ms. Esterman is not Ms. Jeffersons cup of tea, so be it, but to infer that she is in any way lacking in the actors craft just goes to show that she hasn't got the slightest clue about the actors craft. Laura Esterman is one of the great craftsman/women working in the New York Theatre today. Her performance as Sarah is suitably big and flamboyant, but always grounded in reality and never less than honest. Anyone familiar with her body of work knows Laura Esterman couldn't be dishonest if you put a gun to her head.
I tend to worry when critics throw around terms like "the actors craft," it makes me suspect they are disenchanted former acting students with an ax to grind. Updated On: 12/12/03 at 09:39 PM