From Lear to Rothko, a director who wields a big brush
Robert Falls was, to put it bluntly, tired of hearing himself talk. Decades in the rehearsal room had, in his mind, calcified his directorial style. The process worked well for him, of course, as he has spent 26 highly productive years as head of Chicago's Goodman Theatre and along the way earned a Tony Award for his direction of the 1999 Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," with Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman. R…