http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/theater/reviews/16kirk.html
[Note: This review concerns a play depicting a man in therapy for homosexuality and his relationships with others.]
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
CULVER
CITY, Calif., Dec. 13 - A high-flying Manhattan investment banker falls
far and falls hard - if not particularly fast - in Jon Robin Baitz's
knotty new play "The Paris
Letter," which had its world premiere here at the handsome new Kirk
Douglas Theater, a converted movie house. The play opens in New York next spring, in a separate production by the Roundabout Theater Company.
"The Paris Letter" is intriguingly expansive in its dramatic scope and ambition. Its three acts consume nearly three hours, as the action ranges fluidly across four decades, from 1962 to 2002. All but one of the play's five actors, who include Ron Rifkin (a Baitz mainstay), Neil Patrick Harris and Patricia Wettig, play dual roles. Mr. Baitz has, somewhat uncharacteristically, included a potent stew of sensational incident. We are treated to financial scandal, adultery, a suicide and a murder (or is it two murders?), as well as a more prosaic, mildly melodramatic death by cancer.