"Once Upon a Mattress" is Kind of Lumpy
With her outsized features, brassy voice and campy sensibility, Jackie Hoffman is an inveterate scene stealer. And that's a problem for the revival of Once Upon a Mattress that is playing in a Transport Group production down at the Abrons Arts Center through Jan. 3. Because Hoffman is its star and without the need to wrench the attention in her direction, she seems a little unsure of how to put her comedic powers to …