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Byline: Adam Green
Any list of the greatest living playwrights would have to include the Irish dramatist Brian Friel, whose lyrical, mournful works include Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Aristocrats. This month, one of Friel's finest plays, 1979's Faith Healer, comes to New York from Dublin's Gate Theater, starring Ralph Fiennes as a traveling miracle worker intoxicated and destroyed by his gift, Cherry Jones as his emotionally battered wife, and Ian McDiarmid as his knavish manager. Though the story reaches its climax in ...