Straight Line Crazy

Holy Moses? The great stage and screen thespian Ralph Fiennes plays Robert Moses—the controversial city planner who was arguably, for many decades in the mid-20th-century, the most powerful man in New York City—in a new play by the venerable British dramatist David Hare (Plenty). The play's action is divided between 1926, as Moses rises to power, and 1955, as the public's resistence to his influence grows. Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage direct the production, which debuted at London's Bridge Theatre this past spring.