‘POTUS’ on Broadway Explodes an All-Woman Farce in a Wild White House
7 / 10
Selina Fillinger's POTUS, (Shubert Theatre, to Aug. 14) about seven women in the backrooms of the White House trying to save the unseen male president from himself, has extremely funny, sustained moments of pan-meets-frothing-boil and then moments when the dials are turned down, and proceedings lightly simmer. These quieter stretches are not fatal-you just want the comedy to return to its delicious nuttiness; as its subtitle has it: 'Or, behind every great dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive.'

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