Review: Marilyn Monroe Goes To War In ‘norma Jeane Baker Of Troy’

BEN BRANTLEY, NY Times: Theater
Wed, 04/10/2019 - 9:15am

Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming provide the oxygen in Anne Carson’s hypnotic and exasperating work, which imagines the actress as a Euripides heroine.

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