A Minister's Wife, a musical-theater version of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, conceived and directed by Michael Halberstam, Lincoln Center
A big problem for A Minister's Wife is that, unlike most of Shaw's plays, Candida is in my view -- though others disagree -- dated. It has to do with a woman determining her own fate but the ideas circulating...