Slow to grab hold and knotty when it does, Ayad Akhtar's McNeal, opening tonight and starring Robert Downey Jr. in a formidable Broadway debut, is, at its core, a sort of literary parlor game: Let's take that most mighty of 20th Century book-chat tropes " the macho, aging male superstar novelist who amorally mines the […]
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM on September 30, 2024