Broadway review: Sex abuse drama ‘How I Learned to Drive’ is as unsettling now as it was when it broke ground 25 years ago
“How I Learned to Drive” was a groundbreaking play, if you can imagine that adjective being used for the first time. Does the play work now that these actors are so much older? In the case of Parker, a riveting, restless explorer of the human psyche who can bend time, it seems, it truly does. This is, after all, a memory play and memories abide and perhaps even clarify.
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A Diluted ‘Little Prince’ Leads to Disenchantment
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