David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, Manhattan Theater Club's new show now on Broadway, is a domestic drama about a couple's obsession with the death of their child, and the aberrations that can grow out of grief. The entire cast, including Tyne Daly, Mary Catherine Garrison and John Slattery, is excellent, and Cynthia Nixon in the central role is powerful, real, and riveting. Directed with deep understanding of the conflicts in the play by Daniel Sullivan, with appropriate costuming by Jennifer von Mayrhauser and lighting by Christopher Akeerland on John Lee Beatty's fine set, the play raises many questions about relationships, early-on not satisfying to me, but by the end I was happy with the resolution and with the play and felt a satisfying catharsis that made me happy that I saw it. Check it out. I think you'll be glad you did. (I think I love Nixon. I know, I know, she's taken. Ah, the vicissitudes of life!)
