'Brokeback Mountain' Review: Well-Acted and Well-Meaning Play Version Doesn't Make for Compelling Theater by Gordon Cox

Canny casting of Mike Faist ("West Side Story") and Lucas Hedges ("Manchester by the Sea") and abundant efforts to honor Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain," immortalized in Ang Lee's screen version, are all in place. Above all, the sincerity underpinning director Jonathan Butterell's premiere of a stage version is never in doubt. But despite […]

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