Howard Miller takes a look at Doubt: A Parable at the Todd Haimes Theatre:
Never underestimate Sister Aloysius Beauvier, principal of St. Nicholas Elementary School. It's easy enough to peg her as a stereotype, a tough-minded old-fashioned conservative nun who, when told her students are "uniformly terrified" of her, unironically replies, "yes, that's how it works." But, as portrayed by a pitch-perfect Amy Ryan in what is the first Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley's 20-year-old Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Doubt: A Parable, opening tonight at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Todd Haimes Theatre, Sister Aloysius is an all-too-human force of nature who engages in a take-no-prisoners battle when she smells a rat lurking about the premises. |
