Blood from a Stone

In Tommy Nohilly’s brutal family drama, the emotional stone-throwing rarely abates, and many proverbial glass houses get shattered. Under Scott Elliott’s skillful direction, a superb cast—led by Ethan Hawke as an adrift ex-Marine, Ann Dowd as his relentless mother and Gordon Clapp as his powder-keg dad—brings deep grit to the stage; when the initially credible script starts dipping into bathos, the actors keep the play’s veins throbbing.—Adam Feldman