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Bill Heck stars in an all-star Night of the Iguana at ART.

Wilson knows well how to cast and pace a Williams play so that not a word is lost, nor a nuance missed.

With her hypnotic lilt and ethereal spirit, Plummer’s performance is, without question, one of the finest of the year.

The design team of Derek McLane (scenic), David Lander (lighting), and John Gromada (composition/sound) magically transform the stage at the Loeb Drama Center into the sultry environs of a run-down tourist hotel on the tropical coast of Mexico in the summer of 1940.

[Director Michael Wilson] garners a superb performance from Amanda Plummer, a very good performance by Bill Heck, and benefits from a supporting cast of Tony-winners and Broadway-caliber production values.

A beautifully produced version of the Tennessee Williams classic about despair and unexpected love set in a seaside town in Mexico.

“Night of the Iguana” presents the scariest of all truths: that the most atonement, the most suffering, comes not from death, but from life.

Either seeking an elusive happiness or escaping a tortured past, the various travelers who end up on the windswept veranda of the remote resort owned by the recently widowed proprietress Maxine Faulk wrestle with inner demons and dying hopes one steamy and stormy night.

Plummer’s is by far the best performance here, and by any actress on a local stage this year.

Michael Wilson’s starry revival… ends in triumph thanks largely to some of Williams’ best all-time writing, a superb turn by Amanda Plummer and a cameo-to-end-all-cameos from the great James Earl Jones.

This is a very solid, well-executed production of a lesser work by a great playwright, and well worth a look.