What do you get when you toss Hedda Gabler, King Lear, Madame Bovary and many other works of world literature into a chatbot? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar imagines the result in his ingenious new play McNEAL. Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. makes a magnetic Broadway debut as the title novelist, a hard-drinking narcissist who manages to alienate almost everyone he encounters while dabbling in AI techno…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:06AM on October 16, 2024