The Irishman's first new play in over a decade is engaging but overstuffed It's one thing to be indebted to a playwright, as Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter have been at different times to Beckett, or Sondheim's latest musical is to Sartre. But Conor McPherson's The Brightening Air " the title itself is derived from Yeats " comes so fully steeped in Chekhov that you may wonder whether this portrait of rural Ireland i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:54AM on May 19, 2025