Vocally and dramatically he is wonderfully matched by Nora Cole as the figment of his imagination.

Vocally and dramatically he is wonderfully matched by the Broadway star Nora Cole.

He and Ms. Watson, who plays Natalya, a young Russian woman whose love for Luzhin shocks her socially ambitious mother, are wonderfully matched.

They are wonderfully matched, and the backstage shenanigans that make up the first scene lead one to anticipate with glee the ensuing "gala" (Hugh Laing's new scenery switches from the rear of the stage to the front) with its silly Romantic corps and their retracted arms.

The soloistic "characters" are a style-savvy, wonderfully matched foursome: the soprano Edith Mathis, the contralto Trudeliese Schmidt, the tenor Peter Schreier and the bass Gwynne Howell.

Looking like a pair of cherubs exiled from a baroque blue sky, damned to drift for an eternity through the smudged streets of New York City, Christopher Durang and Debra Monk are wonderfully matched in the Huntington Theater Company's revival of Mr. Durang's "Laughing Wild."

Anthony LaPaglia gives an extraordinary performance and is wonderfully matched by Allison Janney and Brittany Murphy.

Anthony LaPaglia gives a performance of extraordinary, bone-deep conviction and is wonderfully matched by Allison Janney and Brittany Murphy as his fellow inmates in purgatory.