NEW YORK -- The opening scene of "Spirit Control" is as harrowing as you're ever likely to experience in the theater. By Frank Scheck An air-traffic controller is desperately trying to talk a young ...

The tense opening scene of “Spirit Control” plays like gangbusters — but it’s all downhill from there. Scribe Beau Willimon opens the action in 1985, up in the control tower of Spirit of St. Louis ...

One of the best things about watching dance is the feeling that it's running away with our bodies. You know what I mean. You're sitting like a lump, in a theater seat or in front of the TV, when ...

Playwright Beau Willimon is the breakout young talent behind the provocative drama Farragut North, which is currently being developed into a Warner Brothers film. Now, he brings his latest work, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Beau Willimon's intriguing but uneven new play, "Spirit Control," reflects on the various ways a disaster affects those involved. Jeremy Sisto stars as Adam Wyatt, a hardworking, young ...

The tense opening scene of "Spirit Control" plays like gangbusters -- but it's all downhill from there. Adam ages 25 years over the course of this three-act play. In act one, he keeps it together ...

Theater Review: For Aching Male-o-drama, See Spirit ControlI intuit something deeply personal in Ben Willimon’s play, but every aspect of it points to a sloppy wallow in musky self-pity.