Anna Christie @ St. Ann's Warehouse

The Play: Anna Christie, Michelle Williams stars in a soggy revival of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winner about the uneasy triangle that forms between a bibulous barge captain, his grown daughter who has spent hard years fending for herself after he abandoned her as a child and the seaman who falls for her before knowing her past. 

 Written by: Eugene O’Neill              Directed by: Thomas Kail

One good thing: Even wearing a thick beard and wielding an even thicker Swedish accent, Brian D’Arcy James manages to convey the vulnerability that underlies the father’s remorse and desperation to shield his daughter from future pain

One not-so-great thing:  In its efforts to differentiate this production from past stagings this one gets bogged down with stylized choreography that has unnecessary supernumeraries rearranging the set between scenes, costumes that sometimes seem more like discards from "The Matrix” rather than what early 20th century people might actually have worn and contemporary characterizations that undercut the story they're all supposed to be telling