In this long but engrossing play set in a mental health clinic, Rabe outlines each character's distinctive battleground, where counselors defend and encourage them against their tendencies to self-harm.
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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Good for Otto’ by David Rabe
The play buffets us from patient to patient, crisis to crisis, and dream sequence to real-life therapy. Artifice this skillful glows with a heightened authenticity. The glittering cast including Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Rhea Perlman, Mark Linn-Baker, and F. Murray Abraham.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Nathan the Wise’ with F. Murray Abraham and Stark Sands
With a uniformly excellent cast, this bracing version of Gotthold Lessing's German Enlightenment play hits home with its then (and still) controversial view of religion: that no faith has the uniquely true message of God.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘It’s Only a Play’ by Terrence McNally
There are plenty of laughs in the show, and laughs have to be enough because there is little else.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Anderson has written his most pun-filled screenplay yet and, as is always the case with his films, once the credits roll you can’t wait to see what he’ll come up with next.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
The Coens are at it again, making a film unlike any they’ve made before while maintaining the top-notch quality we’ve come to expect.
Read More »Book Review: Music on Film: Amadeus by Ray Morton
Everything you ever wanted to know about Amadeus.
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