After more than two decades on death row, an inmate maintains his innocence and recounts his life story in a series of prison visits with a volunteer.

Sat next to David Cromer and an AD taking preview notes, which was interesting. I got the impression that they were tinkering more with the establishing larger-group sequences at the start of the show, and very little with the central-relationship-driven back half. In my head that dovetails with the slightly unusual provenance of the production, which transfers the leads but not Justin Martin’s direction from 2024 at Donmar Warehouse. The Broadway debuts of two-time Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody and (quoth the Playbill, Unspecified) award-winner Tessa Thompson feel decidedly cinematic, in an alien way. An unmemorable, not-really-Broadway-ready play that reeks of star vehicle commission. I’m sure I’m inserting my own bias, but also reacting to the marketing—this, like, depth-of-field vignette poster with its overstylized word art. The collect-em-both variant Playbills that feature just the leads’ upset faces. One wonders why not just make Adrien and Tessa’s names larger than the title altogether.