Any revival worth its salt — and an audience’s time — will illuminate a play in fresh ways. The 1956 drama of hard realities follows the raging and abusive, working-class Jimmy Porter (Matthew Rhys) and the toll he exacts on himself and three people he h

John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” opened in London with a huge bang in 1956, upending staid British theater and helping usher the era of “angry young men” — smart, educated, working- or middle-class, and riled up by their lack of access in post-WWII so

Adam Driver, Sarah Goldberg and Matthew Rhys in "Look Back in Anger" in New York. The Roundabout Theatre Company revival runs off-Broadway through April 8 at the Laura Pels Theatre. Adam Driver, Sarah Goldberg and Matthew Rhys in "Look Back in Anger" in

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Look Back in Anger, with Sarah Goldberg and Matthew Rhys, in the Roundabout Theater Company revival at the Laura Pels Theater. High concept makes for low impact in the new Roundabout Theater Company revival of John Osborn

By Terry Teachout New York IT'S DISORIENTING to watch the film version of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" 56 years after the play on which it was based exploded onto the London stage. The history books assure us that Mr. Osborne swept away the gentee

MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer | In this theater image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Sarah Goldberg, left, and Matthew Rhys are shown in a scene from "Look Back in Anger," in New York. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus) — AP NEW YORK We America