‘Dracula’ as Comedy, Achieved With an Effortlessness That Belies Its Sophistication
Get set for a 90-minute romp in which four of the five cast members juggle multiple roles, with men playing women and vice versa, and the titular vampire is depicted as a preening, swaggering, sexually omnivorous hunk.
Halloween is more than a month away, but a raucous off-Broadway costume party is already in full swing. Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen’s “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” has been in development for several years; in 2020, it was adapted into a radio play and performed by a cast that included Broadway stars such as Annaleigh Ashford, Laura Benanti, and Alex Brightman, offering much-needed comic relief at the height of the pandemic.
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