The main character of "The Whale" is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universally first-rate cast at Playwrights Horizons, is the realization that the title, like the play itself, turns out to be about much [...]
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11AM on April 4, 2013