A Good Case for Staying Home
The big selling point of San Jose Rep’s season opener, The Death of the Novel, is not that it’s a world premiere. The draw also isn’t that it’s a new play by Jonathan Marc Feldman, the screenwriter of Swing Kids, the unintentionally hilarious movie melodrama about the oppressed swing subculture of Nazi Germany (best summed up by the teary little boy yelling “Swing heil!” as his brother is carted off by the Gestapo for doing the Lindy Hop). No, the big deal about this play is that it stars Vincent Kartheiser, best known for playing the weaselly little shit Pete Campbell on Mad Men (and the entirely different weaselly little shit Connor on Angel before that).
