Aaron Sorkin Adapts Harper Lee’s Racial Thriller for Our Time by Jeanette Quick “Before you judge someone, crawl around in their skin,” says Atticus Finch to his children in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The excellent Richard Thomas plays morally upright Finch, our favorite small-town lawyer, to a quiet…
Millennial Notes Schnitzler Resists Easy Update by Baela Tinsley Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde” was shocking, even progressive, back in 1900, when it was censored and suppressed for decades. But now, the script only reveals that our ideas about sex have remained almost as puritanical as they were over a hundred years ago. Under Ariel…
Anna Ziegler Interrogates Princeton Freshmen, Brilliantly by Barry David Horwitz Playwright Anna Ziegler won’t let us off the hook. She presents two charming and evasive new Princeton students who fall into a rape accusation. Was She under the influence of her up-scale roommate whom she wants to impress? Was He deluded by his own…