Stockard Channing explores the essentials in Marsha Norman revival 'Night Mother remains a play of piercing pessimism, something that's not necessarily the same as tragedy, though the two often run congruently. The inexorability of the development of Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner certainly recalls the tragic arc of drama, but its sense of catharsis remains somehow limited.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:36AM on November 3, 2021