'Other Place' holds the most intense work of Laurie Metcalf's career

NEW YORK — Here on W. 47th Street, in a fascinating play about early-onset dementia, or maybe it's brain cancer, or maybe it's just some non-specific traumatic disorder that flowed from the loss of a daughter, the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Laurie Metcalf is doing perhaps the most terrifyingly intense acting work of her formidable career, playing about the most unreliable narrator you could expect to meet in a theater.

Chris Jones

January 21, 2013