The Hallway Trilogy

Adam Rapp and his 14-strong company of actors, two extra directors and an ace design crew are the village needed to create this novelistic panoply of lost souls during and after the so-called American century. The first two plays are packed with solid writing and suspenseful plotting; the last is a postapocalyptic sketch with gross-out effects. Anyone worried that Rapp is getting soft, rest assured: By the end of this epic, every bodily fluid has put in an appearance.—David Cote