
Judy Garland, at the tail end of a disintegrating career, tries to hold it together in a hotel suite during a five-week nightclub gig in London. You know exactly where this play is going, but Tracie Bennett’s interpretation (more than an impersonation) of Garland’s drug-fueled breakdown is so intense and unnerving that it’s impossible to look away. What’s more, Peter Quilter’s play is more than just an exercise in Garland nostalgia; it’s an unsparing but totally credible look at a celebrity in extremis as well as the motives (not all bad) of her enablers.