Theater director Daniel Sullivan's re-staging of the Jon Robin Baitz play, still stagebound, about a Holocaust survivor and old established New York publisher (Ron Rifkin) who has no room for frivolity on his booklist. There's some fun in the character's unyieldingness, as well as in the particular titles he champions: Water on Fire: An Oral History of the Children of Hiroshima and, currently in preparation, The Science of Genocide, four volumes on the Nazi medical experiments. But the script has a lot more in mind than fun: King Lear-ish family conflict and madness. More in mind, but not in hand. With Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton, Tony Goldwyn, and (very good as the verbose author of the genocide text) Ronny Graham. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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