Little Doc

Most of the characters in Dan Klores’s drama, set in 1975 Brooklyn, live in a sometimes-literal haze of drugs, including Ric (Adam Driver, off his game), a former child wonder who has reneged on his early promise and run afoul of a local crime boss. Klores is a documentary filmmaker, and his play, which sometimes suggests The Sopranos in a lower register, has moments of keen writing. But although John Gould Rubin’s staging features top-of-the-line design, Little Doc doesn’t operate right; the writing and central performance too often seem slack.—Adam Feldman