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‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Review: Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk Lead a Surprisingly Humane New Broadway Revival
Also starring Bill Burr, this buzzy new Broadway revival is a surprisingly humane retelling of the pitch-dark play by David Mamet.
Bob Odenkirk has, in recent years, been best-known for the role of Jimmy McGill, a desperate lawyer constantly attempting to find an advantage — ethics be damned — on TV’s “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” Little wonder, then, that he is among the actors doing excellent work in Broadway’s new revival of “ Glengarry Glen Ross,” playing, once again, an amoral creature searching for his next big score. David Mamet’s pitch-dark story of a real-estate boiler room churns with egos and with desire to foist unappealing parcels of land on naive and easily fooled buyers, and yet Levene, who is certain he can reverse a streak of bad luck if only he is given names of better potential clients, hasn’t entirely lost his humanity. And, at moments when the floor seems apt to slip from under Roma, Culkin doesn’t, first, explode; we see in his performance the ways in which being a salesman means, first, convincing oneself of the righteousness of one’s path, before peddling snake-oil to the wider world.
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