SOURCE: A review of Love! Valour! Compassion!, in Variety, February 20, 1995, p. 84.

[In the following favorable review, Gerard discusses the humor and pathos in Love! Valour! Compassion!]

Terrence McNally's play arrives on Broadway with one major cast change, but otherwise, Love! Valour! Compassion! makes a smooth transition from the Manhattan Theater Club's City Center Stage I, where it opened mostly to acclaim in November, to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theater. Produced under the reduced costs/reduced ticket prices Broadway Alliance plan, the play looks like an attractive box office player and a shoo-in for all the top awards nominations.

Love is that rarity these days, a three-act play, full of humor and pathos. It's set outside New York over three summer holiday weekends at the Dutchess County dacha of choreographer Gregory (Stephen Bogardus) and his blind lover, Bobby (Justin Kirk). They're joined by two other gay couples: Arthur (John Benjamin...