Eric Tucker as Henry Higgins and Vaishnavi Sharma as Eliza Doolittle in Bedlam’s Pygmalion

Annabel Capper and Vaishnavi Sharma

Eric Tucker as Henry Higgins (also director and sound designer) in Bedlam’s Pygmalion

Rajesh Bose as Alfred P.Doolittle in Bedlam’s Pygmalion

Annabel Capper, Edmund Lewish, Vaishnavi Sharma, Eric Tucker, and Nigel Gore in Bedlam’s Pygmalion

Has My Fair Lady turned its source material, Pygmalion, into an outdated curiosity?

Bedlam dares you to compare, deliberately mounting its production of George Bernard Shaw’s century-old play Off-Off Broadway at the same time as the fourth Broadway revival of the 60-year-old Lerner and Lowe musical adaptation is in previews at Lincoln Center.

With its usual verve, the acclaimed downtown company puts on a good show, in the process demonstrating that, if Pygmalion is not as mellifluous as My Fair Lady, it retains the sharp social satire that the musical largely drops. And Bedlam adds an extra layer that is pointed.

Full review on DC Theatre Scene