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TheaterDecember 2012 Under us all moved & moved us On Grace, Einstein on the Beach, and Krapp's Last Tape.
The presence of Hollywood Sandinista Ed Asner should have been a warning. Grace is a play about evangelical Christianity, entrepreneurship, and matrimony brought to you in association with the former president of the Democratic Socialists of America. You will not be surprised to learn that it is not very good. There is some decent writing and a very fine performance from the great Michael Shannon, lately of Boardwalk Empire, whose paranoiac take on the American everyman made last year’s Take Shelter a memorable piece of work. The ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 December 2012, on page 54 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Under-us-all-moved---moved-us-7508
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After getting tossed from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 for throwing another patron's cellphone, Kevin D. Williamson provides coverage of Orphans, Jekyll & Hyde, and Bull: The Bullfight Play. Coverage of Macbeth, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Hands on a Hardbody. On Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, My Name Is Asher Lev, and The Other Place. On The Heiress, Dead Accounts, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. On Glengarry Glen Ross, Channeling Kevin Spacey, and The Anarchist.
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