Perspective: Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time.
Adam Driver plays the impulsive, impossible Pale of Lanford Wilson’s 1987 comedy-drama, “Burn This.” By Peter Marks Peter Marks Theater critic Email Bio Follow Theater critic April 21 at 8:30 PM NEW YORK — Hopes dashed. Expectations exceeded. The cycle repeats itself again and again over a lifetime of playgoing, as one brings one’s anticipatory notions into the theaters of the world, along with one’s trusty notebook and pen.
Back-to-back Broadway experiences this weekend reminded this reviewer once again that all presuppositions are shredded the moment the ticket taker hands you back your stub. To wit: the ghastly time to be had, watching the inimitable Nathan Lane get into the cage with the incoherent bear that is “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” and the absolutely delightful one, witnessing Adam Driver, in an utterly captivating turn opposite Keri Russell in Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.
But neither Mac, nor director George C. Wolfe, nor Lane or any of the other first-rank talents assembled for this endeavor, have managed to figure out how to transform this fanciful bit of artistic cannibalizing into inspirational commercial art. Adam Driver and Keri Russell in"Burn This." That Adam Driver rises so potently to the demands of his assignment carries with it — especially after sitting through “Gary’s” crash and burn — the spirit of dramatic redemption. He’s the impulsive, impossible Pale of Wilson’s 1987 comedy-drama about the sudden death of a charismatic young man and the unlikely romantic entanglement the tragedy engenders.
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