Lavin Bellows at Paulson's Writer, by Jeremy Gerard
As an aging New York writer who may have been a one-hit wonder, Linda Lavin runs roughshod over co- star Sarah Paulson, playing the talented protege who quickly surpasses her mentor in Donald Margulies's <cite>Collected Stories</cite>. The middling 1996 drama is being revived on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club in a production that won't change anyone's opinion of it.