Two Against Mob Rule Who Can Turn Up the Heat
Ben BrantleyMarch 8, 2002: When the Devil comes to call, it sure helps if you have star power on your side. Playing a husband and wife under moral siege during the Salem witch trials, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney bring a transfixing heat to Richard Eyre's otherwise merely sweaty revival of ''The Crucible,'' which opened last night at the Virginia Theater.
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