THEATER
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD. Does art enoble the lowest wretch? Are convicts and their captors kindred spirits under the skin? Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker says so in this didactic, sporadically touching Broadway drama, staged without subtlety in a transfer from the Hartford Stage Company.
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. Tommy Tune's staging and choreography capture the splash-and-dazzle Ziegfeld extravaganzas of the teens and '20s, and Keith Carradine engagingly replicates the rope-twirling humorist who starred in them. But Will Rogers, the biggest multimedia star of his time, proves of little interest today, and every enduring thing he ever said has long since has been...
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