Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut playing a writer who succumbs to AI in the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's 'McNeal' at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont.
A friend texted soon after I arrived in New York to see “McNeal,” the new play by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont starring Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut. The message was prompted by the recently published bombshell in the New Yorker about David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play “Stereophonic.” Bear with me for a second — there's a connection. My friend, an L.A.
For a creative artist, sources matter less than how they're redeployed. Akhtar reanimates this dialectical discussion of artistic freedom in the fraught context of AI. The problem is that the play is overwhelmed with ideas, themes and talking points.
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