Hughie review " Forest Whitaker plays for low stakes in slight O'Neill play
Booth Theater, New YorkThe actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O'Neill workWhat small bliss to hear the brisk and melancholy argot of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, a slender one-act play now revived on Broadway. When Erie Smith (Forest Whitaker) enters a dusty hotel lobby at some ungodly hour of the morning, his talk brims ove…