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Total Rating: 
***
Opened: 
June 15, 2012
Ended: 
June 22, 2012
Other Dates: 
Returned October 11, 2012
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Theater Type: 
off-off-Broadway
Theater: 
Triad Theater
Theater Address: 
158 West 72nd Street
Phone: 
212-362-2590
Running Time: 
1 hr
Genre: 
Solo Bio
Author: 
Jessica Sherr
Director: 
Susan Campanaro
Review: 

Jessica Sherr, who wrote and performs Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies, vividly captures the tone and persona of the movie star as she enacts the career and life of Davis. As costumed and hair-styled, she gives us quite a bit of Davis’s looks. What she does not give us is a caricature as she reveals pieces of the star’s character including an early sensuous minx of a vamp — a semi-dressed flirt.

There is more than a touch of the fol-de-rol of Hollywood in the show: names are dropped, a few treacheries and secrets are revealed, and the entirety is a very entertaining, informative, moving revelation of the inner workings of one of my favorite stars performed by an engaging, versatile actress, crisply directed by Susan Campanaro.

Cast: 
Jessica Sherr
Critic: 
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed: 
October 2012