Sex, drugs, profanity " and no laughs " in Richard Pryor fantasia 'Unspeakable'
Here's the crucial problem with "Unspeakable," the fantasia inspired by the life of Richard Pryor that has taken up temporary residence at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place: While the show revels in all the pathology (and then some) of the man who catapulted black comedy and social commentary to a whole new level in the late 1960s and '70, it suggests none of his comic genius. The post Sex, drugs, profanity…