'Prodigal Son' review: Timothée Chalamet ignites Shanley play
It is hard not to wish that John Patrick Shanley had resisted the impulse to include an author's note in the program of "Prodigal Son." Without identifying the 90-minute memory play as autobiographical, we could have been left to ourselves to fall in love, or not, with the troubled but brilliant 15-year-old protagonist from the Bronx and not have to deal with Shanley's admiration for his fascinating, handsome, poetic…