"Arcadia" Isn't Paradise But It's Worth a Visit
Arcadia is an amazing play. The language is, in places, sublime; the ideas totally scintillating. Many consider it to be Tom Stoppard's masterpiece. And yet, the production now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre through June 19 seems wanting. Or perhaps I just wanted too much. I didn't see the original American production when it played at Lincoln Center back in 1995. Friends told me that it was a must-see …