Review: Matt & Ben by Penny Dime Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on January 24, 2017

Much of the funny comes from watching the women represent male bonding behavior. Guy slovenliness rules, and happy dreams of success without discernible pathways to them dominate their talk.

  What happens when a buddy story about a brainy jock and a happy jerk in Massachusetts is performed by a pair of sopranos at the Institution Theatre, a hang-out for aspiring improv artists?    And say, how's that for an opening paragraph of a review? Probably just about as surprising as the opening scene of Matt & Ben when a fully written and brilliantly crafted movie script falls out of the ceiling and lands …

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