Richard Maguire — Theater Critic

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, best known for his role in Modern Family, seems born to play the role. His Capote is bitchy, precocious and lonely. Fetching in his fur coat and Panama hat, he confides to his audience, desperate to be liked, but maintaining a childish glee to create shock and scandal. He sees himself as an outsider, not apprehending that he’s embedded as deeply as any other blue-blood in glittering Society.

The three actors march, prowl and clamber over Es Devlin’s glass cube, a modern day office suite that revolves on stage. As we move into the 1980s it appears to spin to dizzying effect with Luke Hall’s video design that curves along the back of the stage. The way the three men move, always ending up facing the audience when the revolve stops, is a form of choreography. The three men never miss a step. Just below the stage, Yshani Perinpanayagam plays a piano, a haunting score by Nick Powell.