NOBODY'S LAUGHING AT 'CARNAGE, A COMEDY'.(Living Today)

Byline: Michael Kuchwara Associated Press

The title is "Carnage, A Comedy," as if authors Adam Simon and Tim Robbins had to reassure theatergoers it was all right to laugh.

Not many did at a preview of this messy, meandering and mirthless satire of religious evangelism now playing at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.

The play comes from The Actors' Gang, an acting ensemble from Los Angeles that has been putting on productions since 1981 on the West Coast and performed "Carnage" at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland before coming here. It wasn't worth the trip.

Robbins, an actor best known for the movie "Bull Durham," and …