Offbeat director fathers 'All My Sons'

Simon McBurney experiments with classic Despite all the attention surrounding Katie Holmes and her Broadway debut in "All My Sons," it might not be the perf of the Hollywood transplant that decides the fate of this Arthur Miller revival. The long haul may be determined by the audience's taste for British director Simon McBurney and his experimental take on an American classic. Considering Miller is often regarded as a master of Yank realism, McBurney is not an obvious choice to helm such a high-profile remount, which also stars John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson and opens its limited run Oct. 16. After all, McBurney's only other Rialto credit is a revival of Ionesco's absurdist drama "The Chairs" from Complicite, the British theater company he founded in 1983. The troupe is known for boundary-pushing work like... [read full story]