I saw the U.S. premiere at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. I found the play entertaining, if slight. As Synecdoche2 suggests, this is not overly cerebral Stoppard -- and there are pluses and minuses to that. The Wilma production was weird: a ton of white walls and blinding light cues, and a live jazz musician onstage improvising during scene changes which added nothing to the play. But the acting was good there, and I'd say the play is still worth seeing, especially if you like Stoppard.
Haven't seen the Lincoln Center production but why on earth is Jack still being hired?
Stoppard and O'Brien have a long history so it's not at all surprising he would be hired to direct this.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
