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‘The Old Man & The Pool’ Review: Mike Birbiglia Makes Another Broadway Splash

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With his latest solo show The Old Man & the Pool, Mike Birbiglia cements his reigning position as Broadway’s greatest comic storyteller – stand-up comic just doesn’t quite fit him – and, yes, the competition for the title isn’t example plentiful, but if it was, Birbiglia could hold his own.

He’s that good, and so is his latest accomplishment. Directed by his frequent collaborator Seth Barrish, and performed on an attractive, deceptively simple set designed by Beowulf Boritt – a curved, wave-like backdrop displays swimming pool tiles, medical graph charts and more with Hana S.

Kim’s projections – The Old Man & the Pool follows up on Birbiglia’s previous successes Sleepwalk With Me and The New One, this newest new one taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man & the Sea.

Opening tonight at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, the show doesn’t so much expand Birbiglia’s stylistic approach or theatrical reach or, for that matter, his chief topic of discussion – himself, his health and his family – but rather fine-tunes it into a tight, perfectly constructed 85 minutes.

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