NEW YORK—It’s not enough to say you want to change your life. You have to actually mean it. Not treating people as things to be used and discarded is a good first step in that process. It is a point driven home in Kenneth Lonergan’s comedic drama “Hold On To Me Darling,” presented by the Atlantic Theater Company.
Strings McCrane (Timothy Olyphant) of Beaumont, Tennessee, is a megastar, a country and western singer with mainstream appeal and a burgeoning film career. Strings, who often channels Elvis Presley with traces of a bad-boy attitude and the appropriate Southern twang, is also a darling of the tabloids due to his various romances and prima donna behavior.
It is a biting satire of self-centered celebrities and the culture that allows them to flourish.
