Fantastical Adventures of a Missing Son
Ben BrantleyJune 5, 2011: The stage is wreathed in wonders for the Signature Theater Company’s stately production of “The Illusion,” the final offering in its season devoted to the works of Tony Kushner. Adapted by Mr. Kushner from “L’Illusion Comique,” a mongrel oddity of a work from the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, this “Illusion” trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic in which flowers bloom out of nowhere, a half-buried piano plays itself, and spectral circles of seemingly airborne lanterns glow wanly, with the threat of sudden darkness always lurking.
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