Posted: 8/22/26 at 7:21pm
The Globe just filed on A.R.T.'s RHINOCEROS and the word being thrown around is "bone-chillingly prescient," with John Turturro, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany all getting raves:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/22/arts/turturro-giamatti-maslany-rhinoceros-review/&source=gmail&ust=1787520004097000&sa=E
Ionesco is a hard sell commercially -- absurdism plus a two-and-a-half hour running time is not exactly a tourist-friendly pitch -- but that is three legitimate marquee names in a production people are calling urgent rather than dusty. A.R.T. has a well-documented habit of sending things down I-95.
So: does this one come to New York, and if it does, does it land in a nonprofit house or does someone try to make a commercial go of it? My hunch is a limited run at a nonprofit with all three attached or it does not happen at all. Has anyone made the trip to Cambridge yet?
Is the production as pointed as the review suggests, or is that the critic bringing the moment to the material?
