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"After the Fall" (a Roundabout production at the American Airlines Theatre) is Arthur Miller's Eugene O'Neill moment--not the O'Neill of the lesser plays, "Dynamo," "The Rope," and so on, but the turgid, self-consciously grand O'Neill of "Strange Interlude," with a little of "Mourning Becomes Electra" 's fraught familial pull thrown in for good measure. The play was regarded as something of an event when it premiered, in 1964. Not only was it directed by Elia Kazan but Jason Robards played the lead. "After the Fall" was also Miller's theatrical comeback after an absence of nine years, opening three years after the end of his troubled marriage to Marilyn Monroe and two ...