Barrow Street Theatre 27 Barrow St (at Seventh Ave South), 212-868-4444.
Tickets: $49.50–$69, student tickets $20 (available day of performance only). Sun 2:30pm, 7:30pm; Tue 7:30pm; Wed 7:30pm; Thu 7:30pm; Fri 7:30pm; Sat 2:30pm, 7:30pm
Chicago director David Cromer and two dozen actors revivify Thornton Wilder’s American classic by meeting this frighteningly profound play head-on, without sentimentality or the false balm of nostalgia. A tartly ironic Stage Manager (played by Jason Butler Harner) guides us through 12 years in small-town New Hampshire; along the way, Wilder pulls focus way back to reveal a cosmic dimension. This is a muscular, unfussy reckoning with a great work, totally contemporary yet true to the original.—David Cote
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"A muscular, unfussy reckoning with a great work." (Mar 5, 2009)
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