The festival's recent track record under the artistic director Marc Masterson has been uneven, with solid successes like Gina Gionfriddo's "Becky Shaw" and "The Scene" by Theresa Rebeck far outnumbered by forgettable small-bore dramas.
The drama bore echoes of Devon Loch, the racehorse owned by the Queen who inexplicably jumped in the air and landed on his stomach at Aintree, allowing ESB to gain victory.
The saga over natural gas production here includes twists reminiscent of the 1978-91 television drama that bore the city's name.
The drama bears a notable structural and thematic similarity to "4000 Miles," the superb play by Amy Herzog that's being performed a few floors down at Lincoln Center Theater's other stage, the Mitzi Newhouse, through July 1.
The overriding message of the modern historical drama, borne in its sometimes anachronistic 21st-century cadences and tones, is that the human condition is permanent.
You are in the business of inviting your audience to bring their own imagination to bear on the drama, possibly to add not only to what is there to be observed, but to what might be happening after they close the book.
5 29 p.m. | Updated An NBC station in upstate New York expressed regret on Thursday for televising a repeat of "Chicago Fire," a network drama about firefighters, that bore resemblances to a real-life Christmas Eve shooting there.
Cunningham, who stars as Davos Seaworth in the medieval drama, has had dangerous dealings with the priestess and bore witness to the shadow baby.
The summary of many who watched, especially those not deeply into the sport and expecting great drama from this country's major tennis showcase was simple, too: Big bore.
