Vinson Cunningham reviews “Doubt,” starring Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan, and the new show “Brooklyn Laundry,” with Cecily Strong, in which the playwright stages boxerly confrontations.
Now, this spring—the Lenten timing is appropriate, perhaps, for this God-haunted writer—there’s a Shanley double bill. “Doubt: A Parable,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, from 2004, about a fraught episode at a Catholic school and parish, is in revival at the Todd Haimes Theatre, produced by the Roundabout and directed by Scott Ellis.
Sister James is hesitant to assume the worst of Father Flynn: he seems like a nice guy, open and warm, and willing to consider secular songs such as “Frosty the Snowman” for the school’s Christmas pageant. Sister Aloysius hates that idea: “ ‘Frosty the Snowman’ espouses a pagan belief in magic,” she says. “The snowman comes to life when an enchanted hat is put on his head. If the music were more somber, people would realize the images are disturbing and the song heretical. . . .
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