Paul Vale of The Stage wrote, "John Stanley's new play represents a sterling attempt to marry farcical comedy with weightier themes."

He heads directly for the weighty themes of compromise and corruption, sin and redemption.

Fortunately, not all the stories have weighty themes.

As this suggests, "Comedians," which opened on Broadway in 1976, is packed with some weighty themes, including the loss of one's dreams and the historical price of hatred.

Not that there aren't also weightier themes - racism, freedom of speech, the evil of dictatorial regimes - hulking under the surface.

Though "Diner" (1982) is a small-scale comedy, it embodies the weighty theme of young men afraid to grow up.

What's more, his account is edited by Jonathan, and contains a boatload of weighty themes.

Ironically, the further he gets away from weighty themes and materials, the more purely formal and impersonal (and like Stella) he becomes, the better his art.

The struggle between family and society, the often violent obligations of tradition, the dislocations of history - these are weighty themes.

Then she steered that weighty theme back to the students themselves.