
Hughie (2016, Forest Whitaker)
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Eugene O'Neill’s poignant dramatic masterpiece 'Hughie' received a powerful, highly publicized Broadway revival at the Booth Theatre in 2016, standing as a textually rich monument of the season. The claustrophobic, real-time psychological thriller unfolds in the middle of a rainy night in 1928 inside the dreary lobby of a lower-class Manhattan hotel, tracking Erie Smith, a small-time, unctuous Broadway gambler whose luck has completely evaporated, as he systematically interrogates a deadpan new night clerk to mourn the death of the previous clerk, Hughie. Directed by Michael Grandage, the powerhouse production starred Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker in his Broadway debut.

