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The playwright, Phelim McAleer, concentrates not on the rapes and sexual violence of that day but on the resilience of those who lived through the October 7 onslaught in Israel and its aftermath.
Writer and director Moisés Kaufman and co-writer Amanda Gronich have directed their attention to some of Adolf Eichmann’s similarly notorious cohorts, as well as men — and women — whose names will be unfamiliar to most.
For all its enduring popularity, Simon’s work is only seldom produced on Broadway these days: Even if you don’t consider yourself unduly preoccupied with misogyny, his portraits of men and women can be as dated as many of his jokes.
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and a Broadway favorite, Celia Keenan-Bolger star in a semi-autobiographical work that suggests that Vogel harbors considerable anger toward the original ‘Mother,’ and also regards her with some pity.
Unfortunately, while Carell and many others in the cast offer credible performances, the revival now at Lincoln Center Theater, featuring a new adaptation by Heidi Schreck, fails to live up to other interpretations of the play.
Amy Herzog captures, with dialogue that feels bracingly, fearlessly authentic — and that is often very funny besides — how powerful love can be in the face of pain and loss and, just as significantly, the limits of that power.
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