Review: ‘Murder in the First’ consistently smart

By Peter Santilli

Published June 7, 2012 1:05am ET

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NEW YORK (AP) — The two characters at the center of Dan Gordon’s engrossing play “Murder in the First” — a frightfully off-kilter murderer and his lawyer — are as unlikely a pair of heroes as they are friends.

Yet the natural chemistry and watchable demeanor of the actors who play the odd couple make this 1940s courtroom drama, which opened Wednesday at off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters, thoroughly enjoyable.

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