Eric meyersfield biography

This production of William Saroyan’s “The Time of Your Life” offers so many small pleasures that it’s forgivable that it never quite delivers a big one.

Exceptionally well cast — no easy feat for an ensemble piece of 24 characters — and with a solid anchor of a performance by Tony-winner John Glover (“Love! Valour! Compassion!”), the evening is a stellar acting showcase.

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What it never quite manages, though, is to make a case for reviving the play, which comes off as an intriguing, pleasant and watchable curio, but feels firmly stuck in the past.

The denizens of the San Francisco bar that provides the setting for the 1939 play don’t do much more than philosophize.

Fortunately, director Gene Reynolds has populated the place with a talented lot, all of whom seem to be enjoying themselves. In Glover, he has an actor intelligent enough to make the existential querying come off as more than pure self-