NEW YORK—Family relationships can be a tricky dance of unconditional love, painful understandings, and harsh realities. Simon Stephens’s quietly involving “On the Shore of the Wide World,” now at the Atlantic Theater Company, makes this case.
Originally presented in Manchester, England, in 2005, the work may not cover any new ground or make any sweeping statements, but it succeeds brilliantly, in that every moment comes across as real.
