NEW YORK—Surviving a near-death experience is one thing. Coming through it unscathed is something else.
Kieran Knowles’s harrowing drama “Operation Crucible,” based on actual events, takes the audience underneath a massive pile of rubble to meet four men who were trapped for more than 12 hours in the basement of the Marples Hotel in Sheffield, England, after it was destroyed in a German air attack in December 1940.
