A FEW GOOD MEN Brings Sorkin Back To Broadway
Yet for all the strengths of Lincoln Center Theater’s sleek new revival of Sorkin’s military drama, at the Vivian Beaumont through January 10, the biggest letdown is how leaden those same courtroom battles suddenly feel. The scenes are certainly the greatest failing of Michael Arden’s frequently workmanlike staging, which draws out interesting nuances along the edges of Sorkin’s text but fails to animate its core dramatic questions.
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