Sight Unseen
Opening Night: May 25, 2004
Closing: July 25, 2004
Theater: Biltmore Theatre
Laura Linney and Ben Shenkman star in Sight Unseen, by Donald Margulies. The play centers on celebrated artist Jonathan Waxman who, despite immense popularity, yearns for something more in his life. His soul-searching leads him to visit an old girlfriend he selfishly dismissed over a decade before. Daniel Sullivan directs.
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May 26, 2004
A sorcerer named Laura Linney is performing an act of magic that happens only in live theater. She has rewritten a play without changing a word. Ms. Linney, as you probably know, is not a writer but an actress. Yet her emotional incandescence in the revival of ”Sight Unseen,” which opened last night at the Biltmore Theater, has the effect of entirely shifting the focus of Donald Margulies’s fine drama from 1992 about art, time and moral compromise.
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