The Dream of the Burning Boy Heats Up the Roundabout Underground on Opening Night
The New York weather may have been frightful on March 23, but off-Broadway's Roundabout Underground was plenty warm on opening night of David West Read’s The Dream of the Burning Boy. The scorching new play, by turns tragic and funny, traces the effect of a popular high school student’s death on the people who cared about him. Roundabout Underground veteran Reed Birney leads a stellar company that, al…