La Bete
Music Box Theatre, Broadway By Steve Hauck BOTTOM LINE: Theatrical exuberance trumps dramaturgical shortcomings to make this show a thrilling dramatic event. There may not be a more passionately disputed play than David Hirson's La Bete. After New York Times critic Frank Rich savaged the original 1991 Broadway production, a full-page letter appeared in that newspaper extolling the play and entreating readers…